Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
aboideau | (Fr.) a tide gate. |
aboiteau | (Fr.) a tide gate. |
acequia | (Spanish) an irrigation ditch. |
adjutage | (Fr.) a tube added to or inserted into an aperture to control the outflow of water, as a pipe at the mouth of an artificial fountain. |
ajutage | (Fr.) a tube added to or inserted into an aperture to control the outflow of water, as a pipe at the mouth of an artificial fountain. |
anicut | (Tamil) a dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. |
annicut | (Tamil) a dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. |
balneary | a bath; a bathing-place; a medicinal spring. |
boathouse | a place for keeping boats. |
breakwall | a protective wall built offshore and usually parallel to the shore. |
breakwater | a protective wall built offshore and usually parallel to the shore. |
canal | an artificial watercourse, esp for navigation; (verb) to dig an artifical waterway through. |
catchwater | a drain or ditch for collecting surface or surplus water. |
cesspool | a pit or pool for collecting sewage or filthy water. |
cistern | an artificial reservoir for storing water, esp one in the roof-space of a house etc. |
condie | a covered drain. |
culvert | an arched construction or channel enclosing a drain or watercourse beneath a road, railway, etc; (verb) to channel a stream through a culvert. |
cundy | a covered drain. |
dam | an embankment to restrain water; (verb) to restrain water with an embankment or bank. |
dockisation | the act of dockising. |
dockise | to convert into docks. |
dockization | the act of dockizing. |
dockize | to convert into docks. |
downspout | (US) a drainpipe. |
drainage | the act of draining. |
drainpipe | a pipe used for carrying off surplus water. |
drywell | a type of sewage disposal system. |
dyke | a trench, or the earth dug out and thrown up; (verb) to build a dyke. |
empolder | to make a polder of. |
falaj | (Arabic) an irrigation channel, esp in Oman. |
fanal | (Arch.) a lighthouse, a beacon. |
flashboard | one of a set of boards set up at the sides of a water channel to deepen it. |
floodgate | a gate for allowing or stopping the flow of water, a sluice or lock gate. |
floodwall | a wall built as a protection against floods etc. |
flume | an artificial water-channel; (verb) to convey by this. |
forebay | a reservoir from which water is taken to run equipment. |
fracking | the process of forcing liquid containing sand or other material into the strata round a well bottom to split them and prevent them closing. |
gare | (Scots) greedy, miserly; (noun) a dock-basin on a waterway. |
groyne | a wooden breakwater. |
gutter | slum life (verb) to form channels for draining off water |
headgate | a gate to control the flow of water. |
headrace | the channel leading to a waterwheel. |
hydrant | an outlet from a water main. |
irrigative | relating to irrigation. |
jawbox | (Scots) a sink. |
jawhole | (Scots) a cesspool; a sewer entrance. |
koker | (Dutch) in Guyana, a sluice-gate. |
leat | a millstream. |
lockage | materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks. |
milldam | a dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel. |
millpond | a pool formed by damming a stream to provide water to turn a millwheel. |
millrace | the current of water that turns a millwheel. |
millrun | the current of water that turns a millwheel. |
millstream | a stream whose flow is utilized to run a mill. |
milltail | the channel in which water runs away below a millstream, aka tailrace. |
millwheel | a waterwheel that drives a mill. |
moatlike | like a moat. |
nonirrigated | not irrigated. |
penstock | a close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a waterwheel. |
phare | a lighthouse or beacon. |
pharos | (Greek) a lighthouse or beacon. |
pier | a structure extending from land out over water. |
ponton | a float, a bridge of boats. |
pontoon | a float, a bridge of boats; the floating gate of a dock; (verb) to cross a river by means of pontoons. |
pumphouse | a building in which are housed pumps that supply e.g. an irrigation system. |
puteal | a wall round the top of a well. |
qanat | (Arabic) an underground tunnel for carrying irrigation water. |
quai | (Fr.) a quay. |
quay | a wharf for the loading or unloading of vessels. |
quaylike | like a quay. |
quayside | the side of a quay, a wharf for the loading or unloading of vessels. |
rean | a drainage channel. |
reen | a drainage channel. |
rhine | a drainage channel. |
rhyne | a drainage channel. |
rigol | a gutter or water-channel. |
rigoll | a gutter or water-channel. |
seawall | a wall at the shore and parallel to it for protection against wave erosion. |
seawalled | having a SEAWALL. |
sesspool | a pit or pool for collecting sewage or filthy water. |
sewer | a channel (esp underground) for receiving the discharge from house-drains and streets; (verb) to provide with sewers. |
sewerage | a sewage system. |
sheuch | (Scots) a ditch or drain; (verb) to plant temporarily. |
sheugh | (Scots) a ditch or drain; (verb) to plant temporarily. |
siver | (Scots) a drain; a grating over a drain. |
sluice | a structure with a gate for stopping or regulating flow of water (verb) to wash with a sudden flow of water |
sluicelike | like a sluice. |
sluiceway | an artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice. |
sluse | (Milton) a sluice. |
spillway | a sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam. |
stagehead | (Canadian) the part of a fishing stage which extends over the water. |
standpipe | a pipe for supplying water. |
stean | to line eg a well with stone. |
steen | to line eg a well with stone. |
stein | to line eg a well with stone. |
stopbank | in New Zealand, an embankment to prevent flooding. |
sure | certain (verb) to provide with sewers |
surely | (Adv.) SURE, certain. |
syver | (Scots) a drain; a grating over a drain. |
tailrace | the channel in which water runs away below a millstream. |
tailwater | water below a dam or waterpower development. |
thermae | (Lat.) hot springs or baths, esp in ancient Rome. |
thorough | complete (prep.) through; (noun) a manmade channel; a drainage ditch |
tidemill | a water-mill driven by the tide. |
tubewell | a water well in which a long steel tube is bored into an underground aquifer. |
turncock | a valve for regulating water flow. |
underdrain | to drain by deep underground ditches. |
utilidor | an insulated system of pipes for use in arctic regions. |
wasteway | a channel for excess water. |
wasteweir | a sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam, aka a spillway. |
watercourse | a natural or artificial channel through which water flows. |
watergate | a gate of a town or castle opening on to a lake, river, or sea. |
weir | a low dam that is built across a river to raise the water level, divert the water, or control its flow; (verb) to wear. |
wellcurb | the raised edge round a well. |
wellhouse | a structure above a well, housing the windlass. |
zanja | (Spanish) an irrigation canal in Latin America. |