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A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
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(engineering) An enclosure from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc.
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A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matter that would not pass readily through the sewer.
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Alternative form of catch-basin [A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matter that would not pass readily through the sewer.]
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A ditch or drain along the side of a hill or canal, to catch the surface water.
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(hydrology) A topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet.
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A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers
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The water reservoir resulting from placing such a structure.
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Obsolete form of ditch (“a trench”). [A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.]
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A section of water for which no one has fishing rights that is completely surrounded by regions where various parties hold fishing rights.
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A reservoir which stores water to maintain the level in a canal.
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A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill.
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A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill.
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A pond or reservoir produced by damming a river or stream in order to provide a steady source of water for a millrace.
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A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert.
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(ecology) A wetland consisting of a small depression, with or without standing water, often in a salt marsh or other coastal wetland.
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An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
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A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
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A form of caving involving the exploration of potholes.
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A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
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A moat with water in it.
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(architecture) A basin that prevents the passage of sand etc into a drainage system.
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A sewer system that collects all household wastewater in small-diameter pipes laid at fairly flat gradients.
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A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
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(South Africa, archaic) An irrigation channel.
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(construction) An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.
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(chiefly Australia, New Zealand) An area for swimming in a stream or river.
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(Middle East, India, Pakistan) A pond for harvesting rainwater.
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(architecture) An architectural design element involving water, such as a fountain, a pond or a waterfall.
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(law) A branch of law dealing with the ownership, control, and use of water as a resource.
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(US, chiefly Western US) A waterhole in the bed of an intermittent stream, especially the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage.
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(architecture) A molding or other projection in the wall of a building to throw off rainwater.
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(ecology) A place (such as a watering hole) where water is available to local wildlife.
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(construction, archaic) Engineering works relating to the conveyance and flow of fluids (principally water), such as the collection and distribution of water, drainage, irrigation, etc.
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A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
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A room where a well or spring is situated; especially, one built over a mineral spring.
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The place where a spring breaks out of the ground; the source of water for a stream or well.
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(Australia) A type of undersea hole or spring on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, out of which comes fresh water that has flowed underground from the land.
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