watercourse

IPA: wˈɔtɝkɔrs

Examples of "watercourse" in Sentences

'watercourse' overlooked by us, up which the enemy may make his way.
The bank of a watercourse, which is the best of clues, affords the worst of paths, and is quite unfit to be followed at night.
Many a dry watercourse, that is now but a slight depression, could be utilised as a channel for conducting the flood waters to the back country.
Spanning the watercourse was a beautiful multiarched aqueduct bridge built in the Carthaginian style, but sadly it was horribly broken in the middle.
Each square metre of this totally unremarkable watercourse, is worthy of its own treatise; each unit area deserves its own magnus opus from a fluid dynamicist.
This watercourse is the most contaminated in the country, its waters receives industrial waste from the numerous factories along the riverside, especially tanneries.
UP on the high veld our rivers are apt to be strings of pools linked by muddy trickles -- the most stagnant kind of watercourse you would look for in a day's journey.
On leaving this we dug a hole and let the remainder of the water into it, in the hope of its longer continuance, and halted after a long journey in a valley in which there was a kind of watercourse with plenty of water, our latitude being 28 degrees 21 minutes 39 seconds.