headwater

3 definitions found

headwater - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Headwater \Head"wa`ter\ (-w[=a]`), n.
     The source and upper part of a stream; -- commonly used in
     the plural; as, the headwaters of the Missouri.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

headwater - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  headwater
      n 1: the source of a river; "the headwaters of the Nile"

headwater - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "headwater":
     font, fount, fountain, fountainhead, head, headspring, headstream,
     headwaters, mainspring, mine, quarry, riverhead, source, spring,
     springhead, well, wellhead, wellspring