BROOK
NOUNS
1000 ► BURN a brook or small stream; a spring, a fountain; a stream or river
1300 ► BECK a brook or stream
1611 ► RAIN a small brook, stream, or ditch → obs.
1656 ► GUTTER a small brook or channel
1724 ► BURNIE a brooklet; a small burn → Sc.
1865 ► SCOUR a rapid turn in brooks; the shallow part of a brook or river → Eng. dial.
1888 ► LAKE a brook, a rivulet, a stream → Eng. dial.
1898 ► BECKETT a little brook → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
1784 ► VENT of a brook: to flow into a river → US
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