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Cistern's catch
Answer for the clue "Cistern's catch ", 9 letters:
rainwater
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English renwæter ; see rain (n.) + water (n.1).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds [syn: rain ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A decrease in acidity of rainwater was recorded at nine sites, with only one recording a statistically significant increase. ▪ And sand will provide a stable base providing rainwater can not reach it. ▪ But most of the flooding ...
Usage examples of rainwater.
They dozed fitfully beneath their streaming capes as the storm raged on, bailing out the punts as rainwater accumulated.
It was slippery walking, the mud was ankle-deep and the ruts filled with rainwater.
A 25,000-gallon cistern that collects house wastewater and rainwater for reuse in irrigating the gardens.
The road was a sandy orange color and it sliced across the channel country, an arid, desertlike expanse of space cut by curious, narrow-ribbed valleys or arroyos that carried away the meager rainwater in the rainy season.
Over the centuries, prudent captains had landed goats on most of the islets with a modicum of vegetation and pools to collect rainwater.
Recluse, dissipating and sizzling into nothingness in the cold puddles of rainwater.
Mulch opted for a bucket of diced worms and beetles, sauteed in a rainwater and moss vinaigrette.
Their assumedly sincere murmurs of condolence slid off her like rainwater.
Their assumedly sincere murmurs of condolence slid off her like rainwater.
The stock drank from a muddy pool of rainwater caught in a basinlike depression.
It was the Standpipe rolling down the hill, a huge white cylinder still spouting the last of its water supply, the thick cables that had helped to hold it together flying into the air and then cracking down again like steel bullwhips, digging runnels in the soft earth that immediately filled up with rushing rainwater.
She had mixed the antiseptic the night before, one part of carbolic acid to one hundred parts of rainwater.
Instead, she found a large, clean bowl and placed it on the front stoop to catch some rainwater.
When she saw it, she knew immediately that it was the main drainage line that carried rainwater off the interstate and county road far above and east of her.
Indians in Rishi Valley have rediscovered, on their own, a two-thousand-year-old technique of channeling rainwater to make a dry area green, pioneered by the Nabateans, who lived in present-day Jordan around the time of Jesus and who built the famed “.