levadan.
/lɛˈvɑːdə/ In Madeira, a canal for irrigation.
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1885 J. Y. Johnson Madeira vi. 68 Besides the great levadas there are minor ones in every parish.
1920 National Rev. Nov. 408 Levadas are narrow canals cut out of the solid rock of volcanic basalt of which the island consists: watercourses of masonry, which intersect Madeira like a network, for the purposes of irrigation.
1920 National Rev. Nov. 409 One of the more hazardous levada walks.
1963 Times 28 Mar. 14/6 We..set off from the rest-house on the levada at Queimadas.
1975 Country Life 13 Feb. 400/1 Every farm is irrigated by levadas—a network of channels which carry rainwater down from the mountains.
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