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• a variation of wadi.

wady

American  

[wah-dee] / ˈwɑ di /

noun

• wadies
  plural

1. wadi.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• wadies
  plural

Example Sentences

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wady wadies

The ruins extended some hundreds of yards on each bank of the wady.

From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Herbert Strang

There was no doubt that their intention was to convey the aeroplane to the wady, which had an embankment wide enough to allow the passage of the machine.

From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Herbert Strang

Riding along southward, he came at length to a deep wady or channel running into the marsh, where the descent seemed fairly easy.

From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Herbert Strang

A little beyond the tell The Turks spoke of a wady running into the river——" "Well I know it.

From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Herbert Strang

Let half a dozen men and women go to the wady to look after the goats and guard the property.

From The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition by Joseph Nash

The basic Nabataean trick was to throw stone walls across the wadies to delay flash floods.

From Time Magazine Archive

Patient farmers guided by unlettered engineers threw stone walls across the wadies, or dry stream beds, so that the waters from the occasional flash floods could be trapped.

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

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

To join his column with all honor to himself, he had to work back over the wadies he had crossed and circle the gardens that stood in his way.

From The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Frank X. Leyendecker