succession vs trickle

succession

noun
  • Rotation, as of crops. 

  • In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another. 

  • An act of following in sequence. 

  • A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order. 

  • A right to take possession. 

  • A race or series of descendants. 

  • A sequence of things in order. 

  • A passing of royal powers. 

trickle

noun
  • A very thin flow; the act of trickling. 

  • A very thin river. 

verb
  • to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously. 

  • To move or roll slowly. 

  • to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously. 

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