A series of water-filled depressions on the bed of a intermittently flowing watercourse that has otherwise dried up.
to the south-west is a chain of ponds about two miles in length
Example sentencesExamples
- The walk continued to John Hayes Rock Hole, home to a chain of ponds.
- It was on the same chain of ponds crossed by me on the journey of 1835.
- The late hour at which we halted last night had prevented us from noticing this larger chain of ponds.
- The piggery is 30 yards from a watercourse leading to a chain of ponds.
- We crossed a salt chain of ponds in a bed of sandstone and ironstone, and nine miles beyond this we came to another.
- Whilst in descending, we came upon a fine chain of ponds taking its course through a very extensive and grassy valley.