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Drainage system   /drˈeɪnədʒ sˈɪstəm/   Listen
Drainage system

noun
1.
A system of watercourses or drains for carrying off excess water.





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"Drainage system" Quotes from Famous Books



... following the railway track until Bass Station appears (elevation six thousand four hundred and seventeen feet). The road now enters a narrow defile known as the Bright Angel Wash, giving one a fine opportunity to learn the singular drainage system of the Canyon plateau, which, as has been explained elsewhere, is away from the Canyon for many miles. The Wash is picturesque and rugged, the side walls occasionally appearing as bare masses of rock, and again covered with fertile soil on which grow great pines, also ferns, ...
— The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See It, • George Wharton James
... idea is that, in some way or other, the sea is being sucked down into the interior of the earth and then hurled out again; maybe there's a gradual residue being left; maybe a great central lake or sea has formed. Who knows? At any rate all the drainage system of the country seems to have been changed and reversed in the most curious and unaccountable manner. I think we should find, if we could investigate everything thoroughly, that this vast chasm here is intimately connected with the ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England


Words linked to "Drainage system" :   system


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