Trickle \Tric"kle\ (tr[i^]k"k'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trickled} (tr[i^]k"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Trickling} (tr[i^]k"kl[i^]ng).] [OE. triklen, probably for striklen, freq. of striken to flow, AS. str[imac]can. See {Strike}, v. t.] To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.
His salt tears trickled down as rain. --Chaucer.
Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream. --Spenser.
Trickle \Tric"kle\, n. The act or state of trickling; also, that which trickles; a small stream; drip.
Streams that . . . are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud. --James Bryce. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Banks reopened, a trickle of mail was delivered and trash collection resumed in this hurricane-battered city Monday, but a cold downpour hindered efforts to restore power and worsened damage to roofless homes.
GOOD management ideas have always taken a long time to trickle down from concept into common practice.
The stream of East Germans using Hungary as a springboard to the West narrowed to a trickle after East Germany's decision to open its borders, Austrian border officials said today.
It also underwrote a trickle of debt offerings by Japanese corporate borrowers.
In October, a few new shows will trickle in (primarily on NBC).
What seems like a flood of paper passing through Des Moines is a trickle in a roaring river nationwide.
But that business has slowed to a trickle and, without activity, bullion houses have little chance of making profits.
But the number of Jews allowed to emigrate is still a trickle compared with the 1970s, and some emigration laws have been tightened.
Isn't it about time we stopped waiting for opportunity to trickle down from a few privileged neighborhoods into our urban centers and small towns of rural America?
Trading frequently slowed to a trickle just before the report was released and often would explode afterward.
By midmorning, traffic in Titusville had slowed to a trickle as attention turned eastward, toward the shuttle, which could be seen across Indian River.
"It began as a trickle, it's now barely a stream," Mr. Schumer says.
They said the complete count would take nearly three weeks as ballots trickle in from remote areas.
The dribble of Westerners who make it here has increased to a trickle.
The flurry of trading that accompanied the market's retreat last Thursday and modest rebound Friday slowed to a relative trickle yesterday.
New issues will probably continue to appear, but as a trickle rather than a flood, and mostly in specialised areas where there is currently a lack of supply. The big question now for investment trust companies is how to keep all their new investors happy.
More than $3 billion in projects have been scrapped in the past 18 months, and new orders have slowed to a trickle.
Seven months after Hurricane Hugo smashed into South Carolina, the flow of relief supplies has slowed to a trickle and the federal government has shuttered its disaster centers.
By Thursday, trading had slowed to a trickle as dealers took a wait-and-see approach and awaited the pricing of new issues coming to market.
For all the Soviet propaganda about mujahedeen losses, only now is it starting to trickle out that the Soviet losses are equal to if not more than those of the resistance.
In fact, those problems are getting worse as more people flood an underdeveloped transportation and currency exchange system designed for only a trickle of travelers.
But such activity, "although starting to trickle back," still "is not coming back to the same extent as the institutional and member-firm categories," the association's report said.
Although money continues to trickle in and artists are donating proceeds from the sale of some of their works, Boehm says he doesn't think that can save the carousel.
Disputes over transport rights with its troublesome neighbour, Lithuania, have slowed the trickle of much-needed supplies, such as oil.
Food shortages are a widespread and persistent problem in the Soviet Union, and reports of isolated demonstrations when there isn't enough to go around occasionally trickle into Moscow from provincial cities.
"It is clear that growth in industrial countries does not trickle down to developing countries' economies," da Nobrega said.
The one that comes closest for the Democrats, welfare revision, involves only a trickle of new outlays compared to the cost of the basic program.
General Motors Corp.'s Delco Remy division, for example, is developing a solar-powered, "trickle" battery charger.
With no league to showcase their talents even the small trickle of US players to European and Mexican professional clubs in recent years is remarkable. The bulk of the squad has been doing national service.
An erratic trickle of information from Ms Holland - virtually all apparently damaging to the VW side - has accelerated lately.