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  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Trickle  \Tric"kle\  (tr[i^]k"k'l),  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Trickled} 
  (tr[i^]k"k'ld);  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Trickling} 
  (tr[i^]k"kl[i^]ng).]  [OE.  triklen  probably  for  striklen, 
  freq.  of  striken  to  flow,  AS  str[imac]can.  See  {Strike},  v. 
  t.] 
  To  flow  in  a  small  gentle  stream;  to  run  in  drops. 
 
  His  salt  tears  trickled  down  as  rain.  --Chaucer. 
 
  Fast  beside  there  trickled  softly  down  A  gentle  stream. 
  --Spenser.




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