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Water parting   /wˈɔtər pˈɑrtɪŋ/   Listen
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Water parting  n.  (Phys. Geog.) A summit from the opposite sides of which rain waters flow to different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide; a watershed.






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"Water parting" Quotes from Famous Books



... was such that, they got up without difficulty, and had more time to examine these extraordinary rocks, which were as perpendicular as a wall, and gave the traveller the idea of a succession of enormous Gothic cathedrals. With little difficulty they transported their canoe across the water parting to the Peace River. ...
— Pioneers in Canada • Sir Harry Johnston

... to appear in books of geography; and yet how convenient it must be admitted to be; how much more so than 'line of water parting', which it has succeeded; meaning, as I need hardly tell you it does, not merely that which sheds the waters, but that which divides them ('wasserscheide'); and being applied to that exact ridge and ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench



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