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Water parting   /wˈɔtər pˈɑrtɪŋ/   Listen
Water parting

noun
1.
A ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems.  Synonyms: divide, watershed.






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... to appear in books of geography; and yet how convenient it must be admitted to be; how much more so than 'line of water parting', which it has succeeded; meaning, as I need hardly tell you it does, not merely that which sheds the waters, but that which divides them ('wasserscheide'); and being applied to that exact ridge and highest line in a mountain region, where the waters of that region ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench



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