watercourse
IPA: wˈɔtɝkɔrs
noun
- Any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows.
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Examples of "watercourse" in Sentences
- A watercourse is any flowing body of water.
- It is the principal watercourse of southern Uruguay.
- The basement level is marked by a stone watercourse.
- A lick is a small watercourse or an ephemeral stream.
- A 'lick' is a small watercourse or an ephemeral stream.
- Raft construction differs depending on the watercourse.
- A meander in general is a bend in a sinuous watercourse.
- The town is located on the upper reaches of the watercourse at.
- The town is located on the upper reaches of the watercourse at .
- Gypsey springs are watercourses that are intermittent and irregular.
- '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.
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