Watercourse
['wɔːtəkɔːs] or ['wɔtɚkɔrs]
Definition
(noun.) a conduit through which water flows.
(noun.) natural or artificial channel through which water flows.
Checker: Rhonda--From WordNet
Examples
- There is a watercourse across the moor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In some great districts the Church owns all the property--lands, watercourses, woods, mills and factories. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If one grants all this there is still the fact that it was the _Clermont’s_ success that opened the watercourses of the world to steam. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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