the mill-streamlet close to my home [capitalization]

[thirsha]

"the Thames could not peer with the mill-streamlet close to my home"

Above lines I found on dictionary..what does mean "mill-streamlet" ?


if this is place or person why It is not started with capital letter?

 

[cidertree]

What were you looking up in the dictionary? Which one?

'Mill-streamlet' suggests a streamlet that feeds the mill (wheel).

 

[Keith Bradford]

This is a very rare word from an old book. It means "a little stream which feeds a water-mill". I've never seen it before and I doubt I'll ever see it again.

(Also archaic: "the Thames could not peer with..." meaning the Thames could not compare with...

 

[entangledbank]

The Thames is a proper name, but the mill-streamlet is not. A mill-stream is a stream (small river) that was used to power a water mill. The suffix '-let' makes it smaller: a streamlet is a small stream. (This is not a common word.)

 

[cidertree]

I'd use, and expect to hear, 'streamlet' in my dialect.