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runeOE

A flow of water; a stream, a watercourse. English regional (chiefly south-western) in later use. Cf. rean, n., rhine, n.3

sitchOE

A small stream, esp. one flowing through flat or marshy ground, and often dry in summer; a ditch or channel through which such a stream flows; = sike

pipeOE

A small stream, esp. one flowing into a river. Obsolete. rare.

sichetc1133

A small watercourse. Cf. siket, n.

guttera1300

A watercourse, natural or artificial; in later use, a small brook or channel. In 14–15th centuries often used to render Latin stillicidium (shower)…

siket1300

A small watercourse or sike.

sikec1330

A small stream of water, a rill or streamlet, esp. one flowing through flat or marshy ground, and often dry in summer; a ditch or channel through…

watergate1368

A channel for water, esp. one which provides drainage for a coal mine. Now historical.

gole?a1400

A stream, channel, ditch.

gotea1400

A watercourse; any channel for water; a stream.

flout14..

A watercourse.

aa1430

A stream, a watercourse.

trough1513

A hollow or valley resembling a trough; the bed or channel of a stream, or the depressed tract through which it flows; spec. in Geology a…

guta1552

A narrow passage. A channel or run of water, a branch of a stream; a sound, strait.

race1570

A channel or bed (of a stream); spec. an artificial channel leading water to or from a point where its energy is utilized, as in a mill or a mining…

lode1572

A watercourse; an aqueduct, channel; an open drain in fenny districts. Now local.

canala1576

A conduit or drain for liquid. Obsolete except as merged with sense 5.

ditch1589

Extended rhetorically to any watercourse or channel, including those of natural formation.

trink1592

A trench, channel, watercourse (natural or artificial).

leam1601

A drain or watercourse in fen districts.

dike1616

Extended to any watercourse or channel, including those of natural formation. On the Humber, a navigable channel, as Goole Dike, Doncaster Dike

runlet1630

A little stream; a runnel. Cf. run, n.2 24b.

stell1651

An open ditch or brook.

nullah1656

A watercourse, river-bed, or ravine; a drain or channel for rain- or floodwater. Cf. khor, n.

course1665

A channel (natural or artificial) in which water flows; a watercourse.

drain1700

Applied to a natural watercourse which drains a tract of country.

lade1706

A noun lade, with a sense ‘channel, watercourse, mouth of a river’, has been evolved by etymologists from place-names in which the last element is…

droke1772

W. Country dialect and Newfoundland. A furrow or groove; a ditch, a small watercourse; a (steep) narrow passageway; also, a valley.

regimen1797

Physical Geography. = regime, n. 3a.

draught1807

A stream course, a ravine (?). (Also draft)

adit1808

A roughly horizontal passage introduced into a mine for the purpose of access or drainage. Also in extended use; spec. a watercourse, esp. one that…

sluit1818

A channel, ditch, or gully, usually one formed by heavy rain and dry during the greater part of the year.

thalweg1831

The line in the bottom of a valley in which the slopes of the two sides meet, and which forms a natural watercourse; also the line following the…

runway1874

The bed or channel in which a stream runs. Now rare.

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