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water gap

noun

  1. a transverse gap in a mountain ridge, cut by and giving passage to a stream or river.


water gap

noun

  1. a deep valley in a ridge, containing a stream
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


water gap

  1. A transverse cleft in a mountain ridge through which a stream flows.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of water gap1

An Americanism dating back to 1750–60
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Example Sentences

The river flowed through a river-gate, a water-gap in the mountains.

The old man won't let me go to the Water Gap till I can answer those damn questions.

There is a similar aperture, some miles north-east, called the Water Gap.

Travel east along Pine Mountain or travel west, and you find no other water gap within a hundred miles.

Nothing in Alleghany lands compares with this tremendous water-gap.

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