Waterway
['wɔːtəweɪ] or ['wɔtɚwe]
Definition
(n.) Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed.
Typist: Malcolm
Examples
- A few miles west of me was a great waterway. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They would never suspect that we would try for that distant waterway, I answered, and that is why I think that it is the best route for our escape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The removal of the dike by a discharge of forty tons of dynamite, set off by President Wilson, from Washington, was the last stage in the completion of the great waterway. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These we decided to attempt to reach in the hope that from some ridge we might discern the missing waterway. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- When Woola had finished his meal I again took up my weary and seemingly endless wandering in quest of the elusive waterway. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Then we decided to abandon the craft and attempt to make our way on foot to the nearest waterway. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Admiral Porter explored this waterway as far as Deer Creek on the 14th of March, and reported it navigable. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I have ten thoats, John Carter; you may take your choice from among them, and I will accompany you to the nearest waterway that leads to Helium. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The narrowness of the Isthmus naturally suggested the cutting of a waterway through it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At any rate no waterway was in sight, and the entire party was almost ready to drop from hunger, thirst and fatigue. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The effort to make a waterway through Lake Providence and the connecting bayous was abandoned as wholly impracticable about the same time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Dejah Thoris and Sola entered the hills not five miles from a great waterway and are now probably quite safe, he assured me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The lines, she said, were waterways; the circles, cities; and one far to the northwest of us she pointed out as Helium. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- They had seen the Roosevelt influence adding to the resources of life--irrigation, and waterways, conservation, the Panama Canal, the country life movement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The conservation of the forest means the conservation of our waterways, whether these be used for transportation or as sources of drinking water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Twice we crossed the famous Martian waterways, or canals, so-called by our earthly astronomers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- A million veteran fighting-men from Helium's thin waterways man the battleships, the transports, and the convoys, he replied. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- All these waterways are of about the same nature so far as navigation is concerned, until the Sunflower is reached; this affords free navigation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He had recently built several canals on this property, and was at the head of a number of companies which were planning to intersect England with waterways. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Her ships followed her marvellous inland waterways, and put to sea but rarely, and then only to India or Borneo as their utmost adventure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yes, she answered, but it is two hundred miles north of us; it is one of the waterways we crossed on the trip to Thark. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Typed by Levi