Definitions for trickles

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trickles trick·le

Spelling: [trik-uh l]

IPA: /ˈtrɪk əl/

Trickles is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 369 anagrams from letters in trickles (ceiklrst).

Definitions for trickles

noun

1. a trickling flow or stream.
2. a small, slow, or irregular quantity of anything coming, going, or proceeding:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to trickle.

verb (used without object)

1. to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream:
2. to come, go, or pass bit by bit, slowly, or irregularly:

Origin of trickles

1325-75; Middle English triklen, trekelen (v.), apparently sandhi variant of strikle, perhaps equivalent to strike (in obsolete sense “flow”) + -

Examples for trickles

There was a trickle of water down the quarsteel he was leaning against!

By the time Sotloff arrived in town, the flow of journalists in and out of Aleppo had diminished to less than a trickle.

The sweat was beginning to trickle in the hair of the fat cattle.

The huge still continued to trickle forth its alcoholic sweat.

In the meantime, much of the book is already available online, and scholarly criticism has already started to trickle in.

Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, many old Nazis managed discreetly to trickle back to what they regarded as the Fatherland.

Months after the president stepped in to save the Yazidis from genocide, the airstrikes have slowed to a trickle.

If this is a trickle then Noah's flood couldn't have been more than a splash.

In days of yore, blood on screen was to be feared: think the trickle of blood signaling defilement in old vampire movies.

In Fig. 151, an example of connections for a "trickle" charge is given.