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height of land

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noun

  1. a watershed

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"The pace of redistribution has been slowing down since 2007, the height of land reform."

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2018

Most were expropriated at the height of land reforms years ago.

From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2017

The boundary between two drainage basins is the height of land between them.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Beyond that, changes in the height of land masses as soils compact or tectonic plates slip and slide can offset--or magnify--sea-level changes.

From Time Magazine Archive

We were on the top of the height of land that was the highest part of the range of wooded hills we had seen from Burguete.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway