water-privilege

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noun The right to use water; especially, the right to use running water to turn machinery. See water-power.
noun A stream or body of water capable of being utilized in driving machinery.

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Town, so called from the number of different mills erected on the fine water-privilege it contained.

The Path of Duty, and Other Stories
These are grown on irrigated land; a high price being paid both for the land itself and for the water-privilege, and the orchards are seldom more than ten acres in extent.

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
In other words, this water-privilege for Dickerson's land was of recent arrangement -- so recent indeed, that the young farmer believed he could see some fresh-turned earth about the newly-set posts.

Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd
Jack seemed an acute and entertaining representative of Jonathan, come to look at his great water-privilege.

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 Margaret Fuller 1830
Jack seemed an acute and entertaining representative of Jonathan, come to look at his great water-privilege.

At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Margaret Fuller 1830
The wonderful city which, ancient and gigantic as it is, still continues to grow as fast as a young town of logwood by a water-privilege in Michigan, may soon displace those turrets and gardens which are associated with so much that is interesting and noble, with the courtly magnificence of Rich, with the loves of Ormond, with the counsels of Cromwell, with the death of Addison.

Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829