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Definition of Floodwaters
1. floodwater [n] - See also: floodwater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floodwaters
Literary usage of Floodwaters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1906)
"The railway passes across the low lands adjoining the river Dun, over which the
floodwaters of that river used to spread themselves. ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1871)
"Before the railway was constructed, and before plaintiff became possessed of the
land so overflowed by the floodwaters, the owner of this ..."
3. Manufactured Home Installation in Flood Hazard Areas by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"Debris impact forces are produced by solid objects carried by the floodwaters
striking the structure. These forces are extremely difficult to predict and ..."
4. Hazard-Wise: Classroom Resources for Teachers on Natural Hazards & Disasters by Chris Dolan (1995)
"Sewerage systems may be destroyed and diseases may be spread by the floodwaters.
Saturation of soils may cause landslides or subsidence (collapsing of the ..."
5. Queen's Bench Reports by John Leycester Adolphus, Thomas Flower Ellis, Great Britain Court of Queen's Bench (1854)
"The railway passes across the low lands adjoining the river Dun, over which the
floodwaters of that river used to spread themselves. ..."
6. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"As he states, the detention of floodwaters in a stream like the Miami may have
a very ... It would be necessary in that case to have the floodwaters of each ..."
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