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wide-watered, a.
(ˈwaɪdˈwɔːtəd: stress var.)
[Parasynthetic f. wide water (wide a. + water n.) + -ed2, or f. wide adv. + watered ppl. a.]
Having a wide expanse of water; watered over a wide extent; bordered or traversed by wide waters.
1632Milton Penseroso 75, I hear the far-off Curfeu sound, Over som wide-water'd shoar. 1718Pope Iliad xv. 761 Amidst the Plain of some wide-water'd Fen. 1749G. West tr. Pindar, Pythian Odes i. xvii, On fair Himera's wide-water'd shores, Thy sons, Dinomenes, my lyre demand. 1904Rickert Reaper ix, Low-lying, wide-watered Balta. |