watercourse
Origin of watercourse
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How to use watercourse in a sentence
Eastwards it fell away into a marshy tract filling the angle of the two rivers and intersected by watercourses.
King Robert the Bruce | A. F. MurisonNeither is the pig a steppe animal, but lives naturally in forest glades and along watercourses.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | John M. TylerAlong the sides of the watercourses or irrigation channels a rich green carpet of digitaria (or dhoop grass of India) grew.
Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army | Charles Alexander GordonIt was one of those large insects—the “horse-bug,”—peculiar to the Mississippi country, and usually found near watercourses.
The Hunters' Feast | Mayne ReidHere and there ancient sand ridges indicate the successive watercourses.
A history of art in ancient Egypt, Vol. I (of 2) | Georges Perrot
British Dictionary definitions for watercourse
/ (ˈwɔːtəˌkɔːs) /
a stream, river, or canal
the channel, bed, or route along which this flows
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