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water-splash

water-splash noun: a ford, a place where a river or stream is shallow enough to be crossed without the provision of a bridge.

water-splash: a ford, a place where a river or stream is shallow enough to be crossed without the provision of a...
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Noun

water-splash (plural water-splashes)

  1. A ford, a place where a river or stream is shallow enough to be crossed without the provision of a bridge.
    • The village itself, however, is invisible until you come to a corner with an archaic wooden pump high on the right bank, turn, and then suddenly, there it is - all of Kersey, running steeply down The Street to a water-splash through a tributary of the Brett, and up again, just as steeply, to the...1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, pages 237, 240, about Kersey, Suffolk

Forms of water-splash

pluralwater-splashes

Questions about water-splash

What does water-splash mean?
Water-splash means a ford, a place where a river or stream is shallow enough to be crossed without the provision of a bridge.
What part of speech is water-splash?
Water-splash is a noun.
What is the plural of water-splash?
The plural of water-splash is water-splashes.

Words near water-splash in the dictionary

  1. water-soak
  2. water-soaked
  3. water-soaking
  4. water-soaks
  5. water-soluble
  6. water-splash
  7. water-splashes
  8. water-thief
  9. water-thieves
  10. water-tight
  11. water-tube boiler

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