rainwash
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rainwash
Example Sentences
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In winter the clays become semi-liquid, in summer the surface may be largely slip and rainwash, baked hard by the sun.
From The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by J. Cecil Hughes
Often much of the face of the cliff is covered with slip or rainwash, and overgrown with vegetation.
From The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by J. Cecil Hughes
After a time the great boulders fall off and the underlying clay becomes worn by the rainwash to fantastic spikes and ridges.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
It has been formed by rainwash from a hill of chalk, which must once have existed to the south.
From The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by J. Cecil Hughes
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