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An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water beer or other liquids...
Catchment
A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir...
Capaciousness
The quality of being capacious as of a vessel a reservoir a bay the mind etc...
By wash
The outlet from a dam or reservoir also a cut to divert the flow of water...
ballpoint
a pen which has a small metal ball as point of transfer of ink to paper at the tip of a cylandrical and non refillable reservoir of ink short for ballpoint pen...
Water and watercourse
Water and watercourse. In the language of the law the term 'land' includes water, 2 Bl. Com. 18. An action cannot be brought to recover possession of a pool or other piece of water by the name of water only, but it must be brought for the land that lies at the bottom, e.g. 'twenty acres of land covered with water.'-Brownl. 142. See POOL. By granting a certain water, though the right of fishing passes, yet the soil does not. Water being a movable, wandering thing, there can be only a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein. Consult Coulson and Forbes on the Law of Waters, Gale on Easements, and Angell on Watercourse. 'Water' does not include the land on which it stands, unless perhaps in the case of salt pits or springs, where the interest of each owner is measured by builleries, ballaries or buckets of brine, Burt. Comp. pl. (550), and see Co. Litt. 4 b.The (English) Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, and the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1863 (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Water,' and...
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