inrunning
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
an inlet.
Example Sentences
- "an inrunning current has at last become enabled to flow out by its old path again"
- "“Long Wharf,” said Ericsson, jamming the wheel over as the tug churned past the outside dolphins, and putting the engines ahead. He clipped open a speaking-tube and conversed briefly with invisible authority below. The Wonder squatted down duckwise, stuck her battered nose up and scuttered across the course of the inrunning stream of the tide at top speed."
- "And Lancelot answer'd nothing, but he went, / And at the inrunning of a little brook / Sat by the river in a cove"
- "On either side the woodland moved slowly back. The morning mist had not yet vanished, but floated against the trees in silver drifts, and veiled every inrunning of the shores with bright mystery."
Etymology
From in- + running.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: in