Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A natural or artificial channel through which water flows.
- noun A stream or river.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stream of water; a river or brook.
- noun A channel or canal made for the conveyance of water, or serving for conveyance by water.
- noun In law, a stream of water, usually flowing in a definite channel having a bed and sides or banks, and usually discharging itself into some other stream or body of water. Bigelow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Shipbuilding) One of the holes in floor or other plates to permit water to flow through.
- A stream of water; a river or brook.
- A natural channel for water; also, a canal for the conveyance of water, especially in draining lands.
- (Law) A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes
dry .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun any
channel , eithernatural orartificial , through whichwater flows
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun natural or artificial channel through which water flows
- noun a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
- noun a conduit through which water flows
Etymologies
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Examples
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This watercourse is the most contaminated in the country, its waters receives industrial waste from the numerous factories along the riverside, especially tanneries.
Global Voices in English » Argentina: Cleaning Up the Riachuelo 2009
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Each square metre of this totally unremarkable watercourse, is worthy of its own treatise; each unit area deserves its own magnus opus from a fluid dynamicist.
Archive 2009-04-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Spanning the watercourse was a beautiful multiarched aqueduct bridge built in the Carthaginian style, but sadly it was horribly broken in the middle.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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Spanning the watercourse was a beautiful multiarched aqueduct bridge built in the Carthaginian style, but sadly it was horribly broken in the middle.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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Spanning the watercourse was a beautiful multiarched aqueduct bridge built in the Carthaginian style, but sadly it was horribly broken in the middle.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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Many a dry watercourse, that is now but a slight depression, could be utilised as a channel for conducting the flood waters to the back country.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876
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The bank of a watercourse, which is the best of clues, affords the worst of paths, and is quite unfit to be followed at night.
The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866
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UP on the high veld our rivers are apt to be strings of pools linked by muddy trickles -- the most stagnant kind of watercourse you would look for in a day's journey.
Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907
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On leaving this we dug a hole and let the remainder of the water into it, in the hope of its longer continuance, and halted after a long journey in a valley in which there was a kind of watercourse with plenty of water, our latitude being 28 degrees 21 minutes 39 seconds.
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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'watercourse' overlooked by us, up which the enemy may make his way.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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