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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Phys. Geog.) A summit from the opposite sides of which rain waters flow to different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide; a watershed.

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  • noun a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

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