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sheetwash

sheetwash noun: a thin layer of unchanneled water that flows over land, for example during a storm when the ground is too saturated to absorb any more water; if it lasts long enough, such flow forms rills and then larger channels.

Noun

sheetwash (countable and uncountable, plural sheetwashes)

  1. A thin layer of unchanneled water that flows over land, for example during a storm when the ground is too saturated to absorb any more water; if it lasts long enough, such flow forms rills and then larger channels.
    • […] there is no indication that the side "stream" that covered Blue Babe with silt continued in its bed over a long period becayse the hill shows neither gullying nor markedly irregular relief. Instead, one sees evidence along the section of sheetwash events of silt removal from upslope […]2013, R. Dale Guthrie, Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe: The Story of Blue Babe

Forms of sheetwash

pluralsheetwashes

Questions about sheetwash

What does sheetwash mean?
Sheetwash means a thin layer of unchanneled water that flows over land, for example during a storm when the ground is too saturated to absorb any more water; if it lasts long enough, such flow forms rills and then larger channels.
What part of speech is sheetwash?
Sheetwash is a noun.
What is the plural of sheetwash?
The plural of sheetwash is sheetwashes.

Words near sheetwash in the dictionary

  1. sheets of paper
  2. Sheetses
  3. sheetsful
  4. sheetsman
  5. sheetsmen
  6. sheetwash
  7. sheetwashes
  8. sheetwise
  9. sheetwork
  10. sheety
  11. Sheetz

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