red water

noun

A cattle disease, with one symptom being reddish urine.

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Meanings

nounred water (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA cattle disease, with one symptom being reddish urine.

    “Soon afther, some mischances begun to happen to the farmer's cattle; a horse tuk the staggers, a fine vale calf died o' the black-lig, an' some uv his sheep o' the rid wather[.]”

    1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 525
  2. uncountableA wastewater created in the manufacture of TNT.
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Chicago

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