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Definition of Inlets
1. inlet [v] - See also: inlet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inlets
Literary usage of Inlets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shore Processes and Shoreline Development by Douglas Wilson Johnson (1919)
"Tidal action tends to keep inlets open; but, except in the case of an unusually
high tide overflowing a low point on a bar, does not tend to produce inlets. ..."
2. Shore Processes and Shoreline Development by Douglas Wilson Johnson (1919)
"able to narrow or even close some of the inlets. If an abundance of debris is
supplied to longshore currents with great rapidity, the closing of inlets will ..."
3. The Public and General Statutes Passed by the Congress of the United States by Joseph Story, United States, George Sharswood (1840)
"District of ton shall include all the shores, inlets, and rivers, from С pe Ro-
Georgetown. main to Combahee river, inclusive; and the district of Beaufort ..."
4. Sewerage and Sewage Treatment by Harold Eaton Babbitt (1922)
"The street inlets are located on the map as shown in Fig. 25. The sewer lines
are then located so as to make the length of pipe to pass near to all inlets a ..."
5. Land Drainage: A Treatise on the Design and Construction of Open and Closed by John Luther Parsons (1915)
"Design of Tile inlets. — The advisability of providing tile lines with inlets as
an aid in the rapid removal of surface waters is open to question because ..."
6. A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made by Henry Parnell (1833)
"inlets. The water from the side channels of a road should be introduced into the
cross drains by side openings or inlets; these should be built with stone ..."
7. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"Where any ventilating device is installed it is readily possible to measure, by
means of the anemometer, the amount of air passing through inlets or outlets ..."
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