Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mining, a stream of water brought into a trough to wash away sand from ores.
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Hands up who fancies a bit of over-long, self-regarding, wildly po-faced, pop-rock cock-water about heartbeats and rain and killing and saving lives and all that sort of utter, utter, utter balls.
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