Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparatus for determining the height of water in a river; a river-gage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for measuring the height of water in a river; a river gauge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A device used to measure the
depth ofwater in ariver , and sometimes used to record its rise and fall
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The only fluviometer at Tette, or anywhere else on the river, was set up at our suggestion; and the first flood was at its greatest height of thirteen feet six inches on the 17th January, 1859, and then gradually fell a few feet, until succeeded by the greater flood of
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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The only fluviometer at Tette, or anywhere else on the river, was set up at our suggestion; and the first flood was at its greatest height of thirteen feet six inches on the 17th January, 1859, and then gradually fell a few feet, until succeeded by the greater flood of March.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843
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