acequia

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Mission Espada contains the best-preserved segment of the acequia (irrigation system) that was used to bring water to the fields.

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  1. noun Southwestern U.S. An irrigation canal.

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  • A community-operated irrigation canal, or acequia, threads its way from the riverbanks where the crows chatter into a neighborhood of low adobe abodes. —  National Catholic Reporter
  • Mission Espada contains the best-preserved segment of the acequia (irrigation system) that was used to bring water to the fields. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • She also said that an acequia and a seed house are adjacent to the property.
  • The acequia is the oldest one of its kind in the United States that has been used continuously since it was built in the 1730s or —  chron.com Chronicle
  • Leaving a dozen men with buckets, readily filled from the acequia which turned the old water wheel just across the post of No. —  An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier
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  1. Spanish, from Arabic as-sāqiya : al-, the + sāqiya, irrigation ditch, feminine active participle of saqā, to give to drink; see šqy in Semitic roots.

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/ ɑˈseɪkiɑ/
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