karezn.
/ˈkɑːrɛz/ In Afghanistan and Baluchistan: = kanat n.2
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1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 232/1 The water of the kârez, or subterranean canals.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 836/2 Irrigation by ‘karez’ is also largely resorted to.
1902 Earl of Ronaldshay Sport & Politics under Eastern Sky 364 Our road took us along the karez or kanat which brought water from the mountains at the head of the plain.
1920 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 246/2 Then I planned a kareze, a subterranean water-cut.
1924 Glasgow Herald 29 May 9 The Persian husbandmen had even begun to repair and refit their wonderful ‘karezes’.
1969 B. L. C. Johnson South Asia iv. 95/1 A karez system consists of a near horizontal tunnel driven from the level of the cultivable land near the centre of an intermontane basin to intersect the water-table in the gravelly detritus which constitutes the fans along the mountain foot... At the lower end of the tunnel emerges a small stream of water which is led to the fields. An important advantage of the karez is that the water travels most of its way underground, and so with the minimum risk of loss by evaporation.
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