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Sipage   Listen
noun
Sipage, Seepage  n.  Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil. (Scot. & U. S.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sipage" Quotes from Famous Books



... water. The shallow wells that caught the surface seepage of the rain were filled with salt. Out of the lagoon a few soaked bags of flour were recovered. The survivors cut the hearts out of the fallen cocoanut trees and ate them. Here and there they crawled into tiny hutches, made by hollowing out the sand and covering over with fragments of metal ...
— South Sea Tales • Jack London

... clasp knife, and then—in a little pouch or pocket of decomposed quartz—I found that! Not only that, boys," he continued, rising, with a shout, "but the whole slope above the spring is a mass of seepage underneath, as if you'd played a hydraulic hose on it, and it's ready to tumble and is ...
— From Sand Hill to Pine • Bret Harte

... until he came to the saddle at the head of a draw that led down to the valley. Far below them they could see a rider hazing a bunch of cows out into the bottoms. High on the right-hand slope of the gulch lay a notch, a little blind basin watered by the seepage from a sidehill spring, and there on the green bed of it a dozen cows with their calves grazed undisturbed. For perhaps five minutes Harris lolled sidewise in the saddle and watched them. Then a rider appeared on the ridge that divided that draw from the ...
— The Settling of the Sage • Hal G. Evarts



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