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Alternative form of aflaj [(agriculture) An irrigation system which catches mountain water and controls its movement down man-made subterranean channels, found in Oman.]
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A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).
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(geography) A rock formation scooped out by water erosion.
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(countable) A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook.
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(often attributive) Any structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water.
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Obsolete spelling of conduit [A pipe or channel for conveying water, etc.]
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(archaic) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
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(geography) A kind of watercourse found in parts of West Africa.
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(South Africa, Australia) A reservoir.
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A facility to catch debris flows, to trap vegetative and sedimentary debris, such as gravel, boulders, branches, trunks; but allow water to drain; to prevent destruction from debris inundation and surge front downstream.
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A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
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The stagnant water that collects in a ditch.
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(hydrology) A topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet; a watershed.
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A route or course along which water moves or may move to drain a region.
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(mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
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(Lincolnshire) Alternative form of ea [(UK dialect or archaic) A river or watercourse.]
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An outfall fitted with a metal flap so that floodwater will not back up
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A channel for conveying such liquid.
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An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids.
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Water with a very low content of dissolved salt, as opposed to brackish water or salt water.
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(UK, Yorkshire and Lancashire) A small artificial channel carrying water. Usually used with respect to channels built to feed mills.
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A drain; sluice; ditch or gutter.
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A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
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A pool of water left behind when an arroyo runs dry.
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(India) an alleyway or side street.
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A ditch along the side of a road.
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(chiefly in the plural) The source (and the initial part) of a stream
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(countable) The area where water, storm runoff, etc., enters a storm drain.
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(UK, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
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(Hong Kong) An open-air, concrete-lined channel for draining rain or wastewater.
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(Southern US) A small stream.
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A very small brook; a streamlet; a creek, rivulet.
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A small brook or stream; a streamlet; a gill.
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A dam's embankment of compacted free-draining granular earth, often containing rocks, with an impervious zone.
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A small stream or brook.
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To create channels for directing the flow of liquid.
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(transitive) To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.
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An area of land in which one or more sewers discharge
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(now chiefly dialectal) A brook; ditch; gutter; drain; ravine.
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(Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
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An underground sewer or open canal for channeling surface runoff (as from a rain storm); distinct from a sanitary sewer.
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(Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
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A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects.
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Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
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(agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
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(Ireland) A temporary lake in an area of limestone, filled by rising groundwater during the rainy winter season.
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An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.
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A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
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Archaic spelling of wadi. [A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.]
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A spring of water running between stratified rocks.
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A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water.
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The sediment deposited inland of a beach by overwash.
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A weir that allows the escape of excess water from a canal or reservoir
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(poetic, archaic or dialectal) A body of water, almost always a river.
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A court that specializes in water-rights law.
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An area of grassland, besides a river, that is subject to periodic flooding.
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A public commission charged with overseeing water quality in a particular area.
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(uncountable) The formation of beads of water on a smooth surface, especially when used as an indicator of impurities on the surface.
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(hydrology, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
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A rock through which water percolates slowly.
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