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Flowage

noun
1.
Gradual internal motion or deformation of a solid body (as by heat).
2.
A body of water that has been created by deliberately flooding an area.
3.
The act of flooding; filling to overflowing.  Synonym: flood.





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"Flowage" Quotes from Famous Books



... agreed Mr. Crowther, despondently. "It's the part where the big reservoir dam flows back for most twenty miles. You can sail all over it in a bo't, and cut toothpicks from the tops of the second-growth birch. He collected all the flowage damages. He's lumbered the rest of your half till there ain't northin' there but hoop poles and battens. All the standin' timber wuth anything is on his half. I wouldn't swap a brimstun' dump in ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... pressure. Above, the rock can break, instead of flowing. That is the zone of fracture. On Earth the zone of fracture is ten miles deep. Here it must be of the order of only five hundred feet! And the planetary blocks that made a planet's surface float on the zone of flowage—they ...
— Invaders from the Infinite • John Wood Campbell


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