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rainwash

[ reyn-wosh, -wawsh ]

noun

  1. material eroded or swept away by rain.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rainwash1

First recorded in 1875–80; rain + wash
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Example Sentences

Often much of the face of the cliff is covered with slip or rainwash, and overgrown with vegetation.

In winter the clays become semi-liquid, in summer the surface may be largely slip and rainwash, baked hard by the sun.

It has been formed by rainwash from a hill of chalk, which must once have existed to the south.

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