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Definition of Rainwaters
1. rainwater [n] - See also: rainwater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rainwaters
Literary usage of Rainwaters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1896)
"It is the nature of the rock through which the percolating rainwaters, as they
sink lower and lower into the ground, have to pass that determines their ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1880)
"... of the atmosphere, falls at a distance, and is then swept up by rainwaters
and carried by the rivers to be deposited at the bottom of the Yellow Sea. ..."
3. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke (1863)
"... forms a great drain running from west to east, carrying off all the rainwaters
that fall in its neighbourhood through the East Coast Range to the sea. ..."
4. Annual Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1902)
"In view of the considerable monthly and seasonal variations now well established
in the Chlorine content of rainwaters and other natural waters the world ..."
5. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1883)
"They form reservoirs of moisture ; they shelter the growth of the fields : apd
upon hill-sides, where the rainwaters, checked iii their desc«ut by the ..."
6. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1827)
"The substances washed down by rainwaters form by their accumulation new bars,
isthmuses of deposited earth, and points of division, which did not before ..."
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