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(South America) A canal that supplies water for irrigation.
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Alternative form of anicut [(India) A dam built in a stream for maintaining and regulating irrigation.]
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(India) A dam built in a stream for maintaining and regulating irrigation.
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Alternative form of anicut [(India) A dam built in a stream for maintaining and regulating irrigation.]
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Alternative spelling of aqueduct [An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another.]
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An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another.
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Archaic spelling of aqueduct. [An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another.]
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(India) The area served by an irrigation project such as a canal, dam or a tank.
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(hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
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An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
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A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
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To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.
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(UK, dialect) A watercourse.
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A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
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(North Africa) An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley; a qanat.
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An impoundment dam that is wider at the base than at the top, and which uses the massive weight of the dam's mass to withstand the force of water being being stored behind the dam in its reservoir.
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A narrow passage of water.
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Alternative spelling of qanat [An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley]
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An irrigation channel or aqueduct specific to the Portuguese Atlantic region of Madeira.
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(obsolete) A main drain or irrigation channel.
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(Southwestern US) A temporary dam, dyke or reservoir.
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An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley
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Alternative spelling of qanat [An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley]
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A principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply.
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Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
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a man-made channel designed to redirect excess water
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(nautical) The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
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(countable, more generally) Any artificially constructed system or device to halt the destructive flow of water.
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(obsolete) A sewer or watercourse used for sewerage.
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Obsolete form of weir. [An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.]
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