cut water
Example Sentences
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The piers are each nearly 90 feet in length by 20 feet in width, with curved cutwaters.
From Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London by Besant, Walter, Sir
The double tier of wreckage now swept forward, and hurled itself with a sullen plunge against the cutwaters of my stone piers.
From The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures by Selous, Frederick Courteney
At Coleshill, Warwickshire, there is a graceful old bridge leading to the town with its six arches and massive cutwaters.
From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
There is a fine medieval fifteenth-century bridge at Yalding across the Beult, long, fairly level, with deeply embayed cutwaters of rough ragstone.
From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
