rhine

• rean

From Old English ryne. See run.

• IPA^(key): /ɹaɪn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

rhine (plural rhines)

1. (UK, dialect) A watercourse; a ditch for water.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     the Black Ditch and the Langmoor Rhine

2. A running waterway that links a ditch or stream to a river.

• “rhine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Hiner, Hiren, rhein