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Definition of Headstreams
1. headstream [n] - See also: headstream
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headstreams
Literary usage of Headstreams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on Conflicting Translations in the Documents of Our Boundary Question by Emilio Lamarca (1902)
"Vertientes in this instance are "headstreams". ... There is no doubt that vertientes
are here "headstreams", because the word refers to them as it appears ..."
2. Statement Presented on Behalf of Chile in Reply to the Argentine Report by Chile (1901)
"... forming what— on account of there arising in it many of the headstreams [vertientes]
of the ... its eastern prolongation extends between the headstreams ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"To meet the objection that the ancient valley of the Solent (which in late Pliocene
times had as headstreams the modern Frome and Avon) must have isolated ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... navigable in small boats all the way from the union of the headstreams to ...
is separated by a narrow water- parting from the headstreams of the Logone ..."
5. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Élisée Reclus (1893)
"... chiefly centred on the upland pastures about the headstreams of the Weds Guir,
... that is, " River," rise on the plateaux near the headstreams of the ..."
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