- a variation of wadi.
wady
Americannoun
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wadies
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At a short distance from the wady the ground was firmer than it had been farther west, and more suitable for the haulage of the aeroplane.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Herbert Strang
Descending to the foot of the tell, he made his way to a wady that bordered it on one side.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Herbert Strang
Even this wady is known to few, for it lies altogether beyond the track of caravans.
From The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition by Joseph Nash
Burnet came to the conclusion that they intended to draw the aeroplane to a wady somewhere to the north, float it there, perhaps on an extemporised raft, and so convey it to the river.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Herbert Strang
But the wady brought them to an unexpected check.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Herbert Strang
To trap even more water, the Naba-taeans built good-sized stone dams across the larger wadies; they cut channels along hilltops to divert water to fields that could use it best.
From Time Magazine Archive
It does not sink into the hard ground; it pours into the dry wadies, sometimes foaming all the way to the Mediterranean.
From Time Magazine Archive
The basic Nabataean trick was to throw stone walls across the wadies to delay flash floods.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a plateau covered with scattered scrub and occasional boulders, and here & there it is cut by dry streambeds called wadies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Day after day they travelled on, passing through rocky wadies and narrow defiles, out of the sides of which projected jet-black masses of sandstone, giving a wild air to the desolate region.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston
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