streamlet

plural streamlets

1. A small stream.

   [A] ſtreamlet inviting repoſe / Soft-murmuring vvanders avvay, […]

   1760, Anacreon, “Anacreon, Ode 22”, in James Beattie, transl., Original Poems and Translations, London: […] [F. Douglas?]; and sold by A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC, page 76

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   Then the river Medway, branching it selfe into five streamlets, is joyned with as many stone Bridges […]

   1610, William Camden, “Kent”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, page 330

   […] the eye, after poring over the unbounded expanse of the ocean, is releaved and delighted by a streamlet and a dell.

   1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman & Rees, Volume 1, Preface, p. iii

   I wanted to jog in leisurely fashion through the green fields and chestnut avenues, over the rushing bubbling streamlets, to join Sylvie.

   1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 19