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1574 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. f. 42^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Overblawin Thair said watter mouth and brig..ouerblawin and closit with sand.

1588 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 506/1 Inter le watter-mouth aque de I. et locum de Halgrene.

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 81 Thir haill four schippis brak louss..and wes drivin out at the water mouth..throw the violens and speat of the water.

1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. xiii. 280 The prescription of Salmond-fishing, not only in fresh-water, but in the Sea, at the Water-mouth.

1760 Inform. Dk. Gordon v. Earls Murray & Fife 3 The Marquis and his successors fished with their tugnet in the Haven, and water mouth.

1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xviii. 259 In case the French should land at the water-mouth.

1849 Aberdeen Jrnl. 31 Jan. 5/6 As a boy named Lindsay, was strolling on the beach near to the water-mouth, he observed the body of a man.

a1946 V. Jacob Lum Hat & Other Stories (1982) iv. 24 Across the watermouth below the fishing village.., the reflections of the stone houses and whitewashed walls with the little kirk up the rising ground were mirrored upside down.

2011 H. Zou Jesuit Garden in Beijing v. 107 The emperor..moved north along the bank until reaching the water mouth where a small bridge connected the western and northern banks.