Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wall erected on the bank of a river adjoining a bridge, to secure the foundations from the action of the current.
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Examples
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Members of police water-wing boarded the ship soon after receiving reports from eye-witnesses that she had been spotted laying gill nets, the use of which is internationally banned.
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He’s gone off the deep end…and not a water-wing in sight!
Think Progress » Bush’s speech includes ’stark new warning to Iran.’ 2007
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a kind of water-wing, which cleaves its way through the streams, and most of them can also fly, although they are heavy birds.
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'water-wing' under harness when there was a body of H2O anywhere near the DZ.
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