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Definition of Blackwaters
1. blackwater [n] - See also: blackwater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackwaters
Literary usage of Blackwaters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1905)
"... but it's a good woman wi' a good purse that I wish ye, if it's only that the
Castle an' Strathardle may see a Blackwater where blackwaters ha' followed ..."
2. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1890)
"The Wu Tal Shi says that in AD 924 the blackwaters sent an envoy to the After
T'ang (Turkish dynasty). As the Turk's ancestors had, as above mentioned, ..."
3. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1849)
"... to explore Mongol-Tartary, and study carefully the manners and character of
these nomadic people," the adventurers quitted " the valley of blackwaters, ..."
4. Central and South America by Augustus Henry Keane, Clements Robert Markham (1901)
"These affluents are classed by the natives in two categories—the " blackwaters "
and the ..."
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