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Watercourse

noun

Natural or artificial channel through which water flows.

A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth. Synonym: stream.

A conduit through which water flows. Synonym: waterway.

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... at full speed. Most of them were on horseback, but a number loped along on foot, keeping up with the animals. One look was enough. I raced down to my companions again; and we hastily took refuge in the only cover near enough to conceal us—a little clump of willows in a small, damp watercourse. There we ...

— Gold • Stewart White

... piled-up heap of dbris and broken trees, while the old stream had been obliterated and the stream could be seen flowing over a sandy bed, which must have been raised many feet above the level of the old watercourse." ...

— A Study of Recent Earthquakes • Charles Davison

... multitude of small silvery fish from one and a half to two inches in length, leaping on the gravel of the high road, numbers of which I collected and brought away in my palankin. The spot was about half a mile from the sea, and entirely unconnected with any watercourse or pool. ...

— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent

... for variety's sake, I stayed at home and amused myself by catching huge pike, which lie perdue in certain deep ponds skirted with lofty reeds, upon my land, and to which there is a communication from the lagoon by a deep and narrow watercourse. I had almost forgotten the ...

— The Pocket George Borrow • George Borrow

... the bird slightly moved its head, when I saw its beak, and knew it was a pheasant immediately. I then stepped forward—almost on the bird—and a young pheasant rose, and flew between the tree-trunks to a deep dry watercourse, where it ...

— The Open Air • Richard Jefferies

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