Crossword clues for irrigating
irrigating
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Irrigate \Ir"ri*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Irrigated; p. pr. & vb. n. Irrigating.] [L. irrigatus, p. p. of irrigare to irrigate: ir- in + rigare to water; prob. akin to E. rain. See Rain.]
To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.
(Agric.) To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow upon, over, or through it, as in artificial channels.
(Med.) To rinse (a wound, infected area, etc.) with a flow or spray of a liquid.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of irrigate English)
Usage examples of "irrigating".
But he was not irrigating fields, milking cows, or otherwise performing feats of agricultural masochism which might warrant such early rising.
Men, irrigating in the silver fields, paused, leaning contemplatively on their shovel handles, to listen.
And yet irrigating that field was an act as irrevocable as Hitler's invasion of Poland, Castro's voyage on the Grannta, or the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, because it was certain to catalyze tensions which had been building for years, certain to precipitate a war.
Problems might be witnesses to testify that Mon-dragon is irrigating his own land.
Soon as you quit irrigating that useless field everybody will forget about it.
I mean, I can't arrest you for illegally irrigating this field, and you know that and I know that.
I trunk 90 percent of the people in Milagro are begging us to nail them and end that irrigating and restore things to an even keel.
Men and boys who were already in the fields irrigating looked up, laughing, and the women of Milagro watched O.
It had seemed to him back in the beginning, back during that first conference with the governor and Bookman and Noyes, that probably the most logical way to handle the situation was the legal way: take Joe Mondragon to court, find against him, make him stop irrigating, or--if he refused to quit--throw him in jail and be prepared to take the consequences.
The freshened sea-water they've been irrigating with is practically mineral-free!
In an average year the natural water supply of the ranch is sufficient for all purposes but, to guard against any possible shortage in a dry year, water is brought from the mountains in ditches that have been constructed at great labor and expense and is stored in reservoirs, to be used as needed for watering the cattle and irrigating the fields.
The surplus water flows into a large earthern tank or artificial lake and is used for irrigating a small farm that produces grain, fruits and vegetables.
He had imagined himself as that portion of the Platte which had been induced to run through his farm, irrigating his fields and then returning to the Platte—which ran into the Missouri, which ran into the Mississippi, which emptied into the Gulf of Mexico, which returned safely to the greater sea.
The combined towers thus formed a vast arm reaching out a quarter of a mile and irrigating an area containing one hundred and twenty-five acres.
Landholders continued to claim swaths of land, bombarding them with fertilizers, fixing nitrogen, irrigating deserts, and plowing under grasses, mosses, algae they had planted to lay down a nutritive soil matrix.