water-furrows

The first bit was through farmlands, which were seamed with little snow-filled water-furrows.

Greenmantle 2005

Open ditches, even when formed so skillfully that they may be conveniently crossed, or water-furrows which remain where land is laid into ridges by back-furrowing, as much of our flat land must be, if not under-drained, are serious obstructions, at the best.

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

The first bit was through farmlands, which were seamed with little snow-filled water-furrows.

Greenmantle John Buchan 1907

Still, all these ditches, with the narrow beds and their alleys, (or water-furrows,) are deemed insufficient to carry off the excess of rain-water, without the further aid of "hoe-furrows," which are opened first by a plough, and afterwards cleaned out by hand-hoes for every ploughing of the field, because every ploughing (or horse-tillage) fills them.

Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands 1861

More thorough, because there will be no unbroken strips left, and only covered, as in all ridge or bed-ploughing -- and no unnecessary and barren water-furrows made, where of no use, as in the closing of "lands" in all flush-ploughing.

Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands 1861

By or before the first of July, the crop is all well earthed up, the rows of cane growing from the crest of a rounded bed, seven feet wide, with deep water-furrows between each.

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856

In five minutes we had seen, handled, and smelt enough to satisfy us with this very odd and very nasty vagary of tropic nature; and as we did not wish to become faint and ill between the sulphureted hydrogen and the blaze of the sun reflected off the hot black pitch, we hurried on over the water-furrows, and through the sedge-beds to the farther shore -- to find ourselves, in a single step, out of an Inferno into a

Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880

"The streets grown over with rank vegetation; the water-furrows unclean and unattended, emitting offensive and unhealthy stenches; the houses showing evident signs of dilapidation and decay; the side paths, in many places, dangerous to pedestrians -- in fact, everything the eye can rest upon indicates the downfall which has overtaken this once prosperous city.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 Louis Creswicke