rhyne

See also: Rhyne

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɹiːn/, /ɹaɪn/
  • Rhymes: -iːn, -aɪn

Noun

rhyne (plural rhynes)

  1. A running waterway that links a ditch or stream to a river.
See also

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɹaɪn/
  • Rhymes: -aɪn

Noun

rhyne (uncountable)

  1. A kind of Russian hemp.

Anagrams

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English reyn, from Old English reġn, from Proto-West Germanic *regn.

Pronunciation

Noun

rhyne

  1. rain

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 64
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