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Definition of Soakages
1. soakage [n] - See also: soakage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soakages
Literary usage of Soakages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dead Heart of Australia: A Journey Around Lake Eyre in the Summer of by John Walter Gregory (1906)
"But he had only found three old soakages by a deserted native camp. Our first
impressions of the place were disappointing ; of the three ..."
2. The Mineral Resources of Western Australia by Albert Frederick Calvert (1893)
"In good seasons soakages are formed in these watercourses, and in seasons ...
these soakages were often mistaken for springs, and travelling through this ..."
3. Geology of the Broken Hill Lode and Barrier Ranges Mineral Field, New South by John Blockley Jaquet, Edward Fisher Pittman, W. S. Dun (1894)
"Tbis alternation of soakages yielding " salt" with those yielding fresh-water is of
... I am of opinion that those soakages which contain in solution a ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1891)
"... but, as more land was irrigated, and tho supplies of fresh water were replaced
by stronger soakages, more or less brackish, a falling off in the growth ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1902)
"... the party then making for the Macumba across rough sandhill country, in which
some difficulty was experienced in obtaining water, as the soakages were ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1900)
"These wells are for the greater number shallow holes, little more than " soakages,"
and generally contain only small supplies of water, but a few of them ..."
7. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1899)
"These soakages may go on for years without serious disease being caused.
The balance of evidence is in favour of the view that specific contamination by ..."
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