Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Rill

Rill (ril) , noun

[Compare LG. rille a small channel or brook, a furrow, a chamfer, Old English rigol a small brook, French rigole a trench or furrow for water, Welsh rhill a row, rhigol a little ditch. r11.]

1.
A very small brook; a streamlet.
2.
(Astronomy) See Rille.

Rill , intransitive verb

To run a small stream. [Rare] — Prior