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ˈwater-mouth Sc.
The mouth of a river.
1588Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 506/1 Inter le watter-mouth aque de I. et locum de Halgrene. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (Bannatyne Club) I. 49 Thir haill four ships brake louse..and were driven out at the watter mouth..throw the violence and speat of the watter. 1760Inform. Dk. Gordon v. Earls Murray & Fife 3 The Marquis and his successors fished with their tugnet in the Haven, and water mouth. Ibid. 5 What is the boundary..that circumscribes the water-mouth, or ostium fluminis, and separates it from the river? 1808Jamieson. 1824–7Moir Mansie Wauch xviii. (1828) 259 In case the French should land at the water-mouth. |