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| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A shallow channel or raised barrier of soil or other material laid diagonally across the surface of a road or skid trail to lead water off the road and prevent soil erosion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Resource Conservationist Tom Adams shows a water bar erosion control practice on a gravel road adjacent to an orchard. Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "WATER BAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | afløbsrende (channel, cross ditch, down pipe, downspout, drainage trench, drain-pipe, grip, gutter, let, rain water pipe). (various references) | |
Dutch | ontwatering door middel van kanaaltje (cross ditch, grip, let), ontwatering door middel van greppel (cross ditch, grip, let). (various references) | |
French | saignée. (various references) | |
German | Entwässerung (dehydration, drainage). (various references) | |
Italian | canaletto (channel, cross ditch, duct, grip, guttering, let, rill, trench). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aterway arbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vala (dike, ditch, dyke, fosse, grave, pale, trench, trough), rego (drain, furrow, gully, gutter, race, trench, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Spanish | vierteaguas (boot, cross ditch, grip, gutter, let, weatherboard, weatherboarding). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-r-r-t-w" | |
-1 letter: barware. | |
-2 letters: abater, barret, barter, brawer, errata. | |
-3 letters: abate, aware, barer, barre, rabat, rater, rawer, reata, rebar, taber, tarre, tawer, terra, water. | |
-4 letters: abet, area, bare, bate, bear, beat, beta, brae, brat, braw, brew, rare, rate, rear, tare, tear, twae, ware, wart, wear, wert. | |
-5 letters: aba, arb, are, art, ate, awa, awe, baa, bar, bat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-r-r-t-w" | |
+2 letters: breakwater. | |
+3 letters: breakwaters, warrantable. | |
+4 letters: weatherboard. | |
+5 letters: unwarrantable, weatherboards. | |
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| 1. Images: Photo Album 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Bibliography |
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