rainwater

noun 2name 1

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noun

1

Rainfall.

In early December, as rainwaters had started the monthlong process of flooding mines and washing out rail lines, workers lined up before 1 p.m. at an easy-to-miss storefront depot in Mackay.

2

Water (for a house, etc.) sourced from rain which has not joined a spring, stream or river, pond, lake or sea.

Constructed of hard flint stone, which came as ballast from England and is now painted coral white, the house has a fishpond, or catchment, roof, dating from 1788, to collect rainwater.

name

1

A surname.

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