Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is interested, theoretically or practically, in irrigation; a student of irrigation.

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Examples

  • Chaffey in 1899 was a stout, bullet-headed man of fifty-one who reigned as the leading irrigationist in America, a man with an almost mystical ability to find water under the most parched terrain and to put it to profitable use.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Chaffey in 1899 was a stout, bullet-headed man of fifty-one who reigned as the leading irrigationist in America, a man with an almost mystical ability to find water under the most parched terrain and to put it to profitable use.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • ‘Did you know that your best new friend Shel is so into families that he just decamped from Wife Number Three to take up with – get this – his colonic irrigationist … who also happens to be a twenty-eight-year-old Serb with a pair of knockers that would have made the late Jayne Mansfield seem flat-chested.’

    Temptation Douglas Kennedy 2006

  • ‘Did you know that your best new friend Shel is so into families that he just decamped from Wife Number Three to take up with – get this – his colonic irrigationist … who also happens to be a twenty-eight-year-old Serb with a pair of knockers that would have made the late Jayne Mansfield seem flat-chested.’

    Temptation Douglas Kennedy 2006

  • A dairyman, general farmer, irrigationist, and even the fruitgrower finds the pig of inestimable value in using up the waste produce, and turning it into a commodity which will return high interest in a remarkably short space of time.

    Australia, The Dairy Country Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

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