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rock-water
[rock n.1]
Water issuing from a rock, naturally clear and cold.
1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. Lawe 9 Christ-Typing Manna, Quails, Rock-waters fall. 1650Trapp Comm. Deut. xxviii. 2 As the rock-water followed the Israelites in the wilderness. 1705Addison Italy 461 It was extreamly muddy at its Entrance..though as clear as Rock Water at its going out. 1772Graves Spir. Quix. (1820) I. 190, I don't pretend to live upon roots and rock-water. 1838J. Pardoe River & Desert I. 159 A delicious fountain, into whose basin the sparkling rock-water is poured. 1948F. Blake Johnny Christmas i. 40 Yet in this utter lack of sound, except for the sputter of flames and the musical seep of rock-water, Johnny came alert, strangely, as if awakened by a thin cry of warning.
attrib.1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VII. 239 Her invitation most certainly runs all in the rock-water style. |