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rhyne

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The best quality of Russian hemp.

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  • noun a running waterway that links a ditch or stream to a river.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile a trio of teal - our smallest duck - are flying around in a vain search for an ice-free rhyne (the Somerset name for the dykes that criss-cross this frosty landscape).

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • Meanwhile a trio of teal - our smallest duck - are flying around in a vain search for an ice-free rhyne (the Somerset name for the dykes that criss-cross this frosty landscape).

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2009

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  • alexz commented on the word rhyne

    hoar frost - from the Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia

    https://books.google.ca/books?id=ivgvAAAAYAAJ page 409 c.1824

    September 24, 2015

  • knitandpurl commented on the word rhyne

    "Early the next morning, I rose at dawn to walk over the hill to Glastonbury. I'd tried once before, one January years earlier, but fell in a rhyne down on the Levels and lost heart."

    Rising Ground by Philip Marsden, p 103 of the University of Chicago Press hardcover

    September 26, 2016