river-water

A form of river water — Water found in or taken from a river.

Meanings

nounriver-water (countable and uncountable, plural river-waters)

plural river-waters

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of river water.

    She spit out a mouthful of sand that tasted like Grape Nuts soaked in river-water.

    2015, Christian O'Neill, Back Roads Kingdom: Book One of the Back Roads Cycle, →ISBN
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    In such a process the dammed up river-water passes over cascades (for aeration) into gravel pre-filters, is collected at the end of said filters and, after repeated aeration, brought onto sand filters.

    2012, Francis A. Gunther, Residue Reviews: Residues of Pesticides and other Contaminants in the Total Environment, →ISBN

    The presence of widespread lateritic formations has been thought to indicate very high rates of silica removal in tropical environments, G.V. Bogomolov et al. (1966) asserting that the silica content of tropical river-waters is greater than that of open streams in higher latitudes, and N.M. Strakhov (1967) noting that the migrational capacity of SiO₂ is particularly high in the humid tropics.

    2013, Olav Slaytnaker, Fluv Geom: Geom Crit Conc Vol, →ISBN
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