underflow

Example Sentences

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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

This underflow is very characteristic of that part of the State, where it is said, there are many lost rivers flowing beneath the surface, adding one more to the list of Kansas phenomena.

From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Street, Julian

Report of the special agent in charge of the artesian and underflow investigations, and of the irrigation inquiry.

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

Presumably your rainfall is too small for fruit unless you strike underflow below the hardpan.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)

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