ˈriver-ˌwater
Also river water.
[f. river n.1 + water n. Cf. Du. rivierwater, G. revierwasser.]
Water in, forming, or obtained from, a river or stream.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. iii. (Bodl. MS), Ryuer water is beeste þat renneþ esteward.., and þe reuer water þat renneþ westward is lasse worthie. 1565 Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Aqua, Runnyng or riuer water. 1600 J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa iii. 160 Engins, for the conueying of riuer-water ouer the said walles into cesternes. 1620 Venner Via Recta Introd. 9 Riuer-water hath the third place of goodnes. 1707 Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 350 A wooden Trough, fill'd with River-Water. 1762 Mills Syst. Husb. I. 483 The Spaniards..steep them in river water and salt till that bitterness is gone. 1835 Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 4) I. 345 The area over which the river-water is spread. 1849 Noad Electr. (ed. 3) 220 Common river-water was employed to fill the basin, and to knead the pipe-clay. |