underflow

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HICKS, L. E. On the underflow and sheet waters, irrigable lands and geological structure of Nebraska, with its effect upon the water supply. 24pp., 5pls.

From United States Government Publications, v. 8 Jan-Jun 1892 A Monthly Catalog by Compiled

And yet behind that apparent incredulity in his voice and manner David sensed the deep underflow of another thing.

From The Flaming Forest by Curwood, James Oliver

However, here, as in the Chaco, there is an underflow, which the Indians know how to utilize and from which they can always obtain a sufficient supply of potable water.

From Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898 by Mindeleff, Cosmos

Here the waters lost themselves for many feet in the underflow so common in this land of aimless, uncertain waterways.

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by McCarter, Margaret Hill

Some think that the station dropped into an immense cave, and others that it was caused by the underflow of the Arkansas River, which is overflowing its banks at the present time.

From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 57, December 9, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Bishop, Julia Truitt