(Littéraire) Ruisseau.
ETYM AS. crecca; akin to Dutch kreek, Icel. kriki crack, nook; cf. W. crig crack, crigyll ravine, creek. Related to Crick, Crook.
(Homonym: creak).
1. A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
2. A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.
ETYM Cf. lg. rille a small channel or brook, a furrow, a chamfer, Old Eng. rigol a small brook, French rigole a trench or furrow for water, w. rhill a row, rhigol a little ditch.
A small channel (as one formed by soil erosion).
A very small brook.
Any of several long narrow valleys on the moon's surface.
Abbreviation for the United Kingdom.
Ruthenium