water streamn.

OE Ælfric Homily: Sermo ad Populum (Corpus Cambr. 188) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 416 Ac he [sc. Christ] wolde sylf swa gehalgian ure fulluht mid his halgan lichaman, and ealle wæterstreamas mid his ingange.

OE Paris Psalter (1932) lxxvii. 44 He wæterstreamas [L. flumina] wende to blode.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 18092 Forr all all swa se waterr stræm. Aȝȝ fleteþþ forþ. & erneþþ..All swa [etc.].

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 177 Eleuauerunt flumina fluctus suos.., Ðe water stremes on-heueden up here undes.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 13417 Þe blode ran doun as water stremes.

a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 1932 He led it in to his own lond, And told the quene how he it ffond By a water streme.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. lix. C He shal come as a violent waterstreame, which the wynde of the Lorde hath moued.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. i. sig. Z6^v Like as a water streame, whose swelling sourse Shall driue a Mill, within strong bancks is pent. View more context for this quotation

1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron ii. v. 96 They suffered not any hill or dale to be in the way, nor water-streames, but they made a bridge over it, that nothing might hinder him that fled thither.

1654 C. Hotham tr. J. Böhme Consolatory Treat. Four Complexions iv. sig. B6^v Sin here is little regarded as the water-stream that passes away.

1778 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain I. 351 The roaring of the water-streams was so great, that I very often thought we were upon the margin of some river.

1839 Proc. Bot. Soc. London 83 A mountain point, a water stream, or line of road [may] be made an almost infallible guide to a fertile spot.

1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. ii. 20 Erecting Lilliputian mills in the little water-streams.

1943 Triumphs of Engin. 12/1 The setting of these blades can be altered so as to present a different angle to the flow of the water stream.

1959 L. H. Van Vlack Elements Materials Sci. ix. 268 A water stream of specified volume and pressure.

2013 R. Ehrlich Renewable Energy viii. 223 The earliest type of turbine design is the impulse turbine, which is turned by the impact of a water stream.