Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crevice containing water, and capable of yielding it to a well or other excavation.
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The drip of a veiled water-vein at the rear made him conscious of thirst, but the sleeping woman was in the way of his creeping to take
Marianson From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874
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