From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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His salt tears trickled down as rain. --Chaucer.
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Fast beside there trickled softly down
A gentle stream. --Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.]