Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The entire basin drained by a river and all its tributaries.
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Examples
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This may be on the level of the drainage-area concerned, or perhaps even on the village level.
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It is known from the amount of sediment annually delivered into the sea by the Mississippi, that its enormous drainage-area must on an average be lowered. 00263 of an inch each year; and this would suffice in four and a half million years to lower the whole drainage-area to the level of the seashore.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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