What is "watercourse"

Usage examples of "watercourse".

Gothard, save the untutored watercourses of the Ticino and the Reuss, and the track of the bouquetin or the chamois?

Instead of the fission plants the other Big15 used, Heather went in for hydropower on a colossal scale, damming two-thirds of the watercourses on the Sybraska continent where Rialto was situated.

Golden Soak was at the foot of these two, in rough hillocked country with the stony beds of dry watercourses and nothing much growing there but mallee and spinifex.

The Wadi el Melik or Milk, one of the canyon like depressions cut by watercourses long since vanished, struck off from the river into the southwestern desert.

Where the terrain allowed, he crept out of the forest and down to the creek bank to examine the watercourse for the signs of human life that seemed to litter every creek and river in America: plastic bottles, polystyrene hamburger wrappers, and aluminum cans.

Instead of being laid out in a straight line, the street to the tramway kinked like a watercourse.

The emplacement, extending along the eastern bank of the main watercourse, is marked by a number of mounds scattered over with broken glass and pottery of all kinds: no coins were found, but rude bits of metal, all verdigris, were picked up north of the palm-orchard.

These fairs were held only during the dry seasons, since the monsoons roaring up from the Southern Sea otherwise made passage of the bogland watercourses impossible.

This overmountain procession came chiefly up the watercourses of the south and middle States.

But the paths across it--those connecting the streams that flow in opposite directions from the continental watersheds--are like isthmian paths between great oceans-- great dry oceans with watercourses through them.

But with the horses, they could cross many smaller watercourses with little more than a splash or two, and even big rivers posed far less difficulty.

It sounded like a sidestream tumbling from the upper rocks, to join the main watercourse beneath.

It is a compact block, everywhere rising abruptly from low and sandy watercourses, and completely detached from its neighbours by broad Wadys--the Surr to the north and east, while southwards run the Kuwayd and the Zahakan.

A potbellied Congolese policeman with blue-black skin, a presidential air of self-importance, and a wen under his left eye sat in the anteroom behind a flyspecked desk, reading a French-language newspaper whose headline proclaimed afrry disaster on the Kilombo River, the same muddy watercourse that flowed past Mogado.

The bat had been identified as an innocent victim of appearances, a very mild-mannered beast dedicated to the pursuit and engulfment of huge mothlike bugs which hung around watercourses.