Crossword-Solution: FLOODWATER
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| Clue | Answers |
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| excess water produced in a flood | 1 answer |
| Corps of Engineers concern | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEMZEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FLOODWATER (5)
The floodwater, in its mad rush to escape to the depression at the lower end of the field, had carved a course through the spot where we were lying.
The Seneca reservoir as proposed in 1963 provided floodwater storage calculated to reduce metropolitan damages by 46 percent.
The coffee was brown as floodwater silt, heavy with sugar, and very hot; and the cups had no handles.
CHAPTER VIII SHALFORD AND WONERSH Shalford and its Stocks.--The Common.--Vanity Fair.--The Court of Dusty-Feet.--Unstead in floodwater.--Dog Smith.--Bramley Mill.--Wonersh, Ignorsh, Ognersh.--A village well cared for.--A Grisly Barometer.--Tangley Manor.
The tide-level scheme has a dam at Gamboa, near Obispo, thus making a lake of the upper waters of the Chagres, whose surface would be 200 feet above sea-level.[8] The floodwater would partly be accommodated in the lake by reason of the great height of the dam above low-water stage, and partly by running the excess into the Canal, by which it would escape to the sea, generating currents which the Board calculated would not attain an injurious velocity.
Quotes with FLOODWATER (3)
A weathered black and silver Dodge pickup towing a small motorboat pulled up behind us, and Alex circled back to greet the driver. I couldn’t see who sat behind the crusted and dirty windshield, but Alex stood at the driver’s window and pointed down the block where the boulevard disappeared into floodwater. The truck pulled ahead, maneuvered a deft U-turn, and backed toward the water. Alex motioned for me to follow. By the time I lurched my way to the truck, he and the pickup…
Mati took in my expression, and a moment later I was in his arms. His kisses washed over me like floodwater over parched earth. I clutched him helplessly, tears falling down my face and mingling with his as he whispered my name.
If we can find a way to keep floodwater in reserve and to use it when it's needed, it will be a double boon.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1996).