qanat

The whole area was a kind of qanat system where man had helped nature in opening up the whole area to catastrophic collapse.

Cryptome 2009

Water management for irrigation purposes, here in an above-ground channel or jui, but also in underground karez and qanat systems, is labor-intensive and predicated on cooperation.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

The poor had to just take a siesta in the heat or the public access atechamber to the local qanat.

Eric Lurio: Notes on the Iran/Persia Conflict: A Travelogue -- Part Three 2009

The beginning of the qanat always started higher in elevation than the terminus, since it ran solely by gravity.

Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006

Iranian qanat builders of the twentieth century kept their tunnels straight from shaft to shaft by keeping two lit lanterns placed a few feet apart directly behind the digger.

Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006

The beginning of the qanat always started higher in elevation than the terminus, since it ran solely by gravity.

Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006

Iranian qanat builders of the twentieth century kept their tunnels straight from shaft to shaft by keeping two lit lanterns placed a few feet apart directly behind the digger.

Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006

In one of his conscious moments he surmised that he was in a qanat, in one of the underground rivers the wise men had said ex­isted, but he had no way of knowing whether he was being carried along by the river or simply hanging in one spot.

The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

All around was evidence of the explosion of water and dammed-up pressure that had brought Casca into the air once he had pierced the underground dam that held back the qanat.

The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

William attributes his Scrabble acumen to his very thorough education in university, which opened his eyes, he says, to premium words such as "aureolae," "qanat," and "euripi" my spell-check flagged two of these words as being unknown; that's how good William is.

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