watercourse

watercourse
Synonyms and related words:
adolescent stream, aqueduct, arroyo, beck, bed, bourn, braided stream, branch, brook, brooklet, burn, canal, channel, conduit, course, creek, creek bed, crick, culvert, donga, dry bed, duct, flowing stream, flume, fluviation, fresh, freshet, gill, gulch, gully, gullyhole, headrace, irrigation ditch, kill, lazy stream, meandering stream, midchannel, midstream, millstream, moving road, navigable river, nullah, race, racing stream, river, river bed, riverway, rivulet, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, sike, sluice, spill stream, spillbox, spillway, stream, stream action, stream bed, streamlet, streamway, subterranean river, swash, swash channel, tailrace, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, waterway, waterworks

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  • watercourse — ► NOUN ▪ a brook, stream, or artificially constructed water channel …   English terms dictionary

  • watercourse — [wôt′ərkôrs΄, wät′ərkôrs΄] n. 1. a stream of water; river, brook, etc. 2. a channel for water, as a canal or stream bed …   English World dictionary

  • watercourse — UK [ˈwɔːtə(r)ˌkɔː(r)s] / US [ˈwɔtərˌkɔrs] noun [countable] Word forms watercourse : singular watercourse plural watercourses formal a river, canal, or stream …   English dictionary

  • Watercourse — A watercourse is any flowing body of water. These include rivers, streams, brooks, anabranches et cetera. See also * Environmental flow * Waterway …   Wikipedia

  • watercourse — wa|ter|course [ˈwo:təko:s US ˈwo:tərko:rs, ˈwa: ] n 1.) a place where water flows, for example a river or ↑canal ▪ chemicals that pollute the local watercourse 2.) a long thin hole for water to flow through …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • watercourse — [[t]wɔ͟ːtə(r)kɔː(r)s[/t]] watercourses also water course N COUNT A watercourse is a stream or river, or the channel that it flows along. [FORMAL] …   English dictionary

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  • watercourse — A stream of water flowing in a definite direction or course in a bed with banks. A natural channel, having a well defined existence, with running water supplied from a definite source. Snyder v Platte Valley Pub. Power & Irrig. Dist. 144 Neb 308 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

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