underflow

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This is driven by an underflow of current.

From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.

Final geological reports of the artesian and underflow investigation between the 97th meridian of longitude and the foothills of the Rocky mountains, to the Secretary of Agriculture.

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

She studied rather their common turn of phrase, its heights and its hollows, its exquisite illogic, its passionate underflow of poetry.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

From the area of water-bearing gravels found, it was proposed to tap the underflow water at the 630-m. level by an infiltration gallery.

From ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. by Conway, George Robert Graham

Its current, unripplingly smooth, but dimpled ever, and wrinkled with the whirls that mark an underflow deep and shady, bore on our bark.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various