water-channel

But Sakiyah is also applied, as here, to the water-channel which turns the wheel.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Typhoons are not known so far north as Yezo, but it was what they call a “typhoon rain” without the typhoon, and in no time it turned the streams into torrents barely fordable, and tore up such of a road as there is, which at its best is a mere water-channel.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

Maintenance of a small unlined water-channel in such circumstances can be very difficult.

Chapter 13 1995

He bestirred himself to search the dark, and, feeling around him, discovered a slimed wet water-channel, carrying water that smelled and tasted clean.

The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

He could move; he had his cloak to wrap in against the chill; and when time passed and nothing threatened the silence or his solitude he crept back to the water-channel and washed at his leisure, although he was sore down to his fingertips and the cold and the effort hurt.

The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

He could move; he had his cloak to wrap in against the chill; and when time passed and nothing threatened the silence or his solitude he crept back to the water-channel and washed at his leisure, although he was sore down to his fingertips and the cold and the effort hurt.

The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

The strongest point of a tower is one direction to come up on, because they may not have guards there; and the water-channel or the drains are easier to get at than windows.

The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

He bestirred himself to search the dark, and, feeling around him, discovered a slimed wet water-channel, carrying water that smelled and tasted clean.

The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

The strongest point of a tower is one direction to come up on, because they may not have guards there; and the water-channel or the drains are easier to get at than windows.

The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

The main bed of the water-channel was all black, and above this was a coat of white over the blackened stones, and as the remaining pools were all white, I suppose that some white tributary continues flowing later than the black stream.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent