Meaning of winterbourne | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A place in England:
2. A small village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU4572).
3. A stream that only flows in winter or after wet weather, particularly in an area rich in limestone.
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4. A large village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6580).
5. A hamlet in Boughton under Blean parish, Swale district, Kent (OS grid ref TR0657).
6. A civil parish north-east of Salisbury, Wiltshire.
7. A community in Woolwich township, Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
8. A surname from Old English.

Examples

“[F]rom the graveyard itself burst up one of those noble springs known as winter-bournes in the chalk ranges, which, awakened in autumn from the abysses to which it had shrunk during the summer's drought, was hurrying down upon its six months' course, a broad sheet of oily silver, over a temporary channel of smooth green sward.”

“The stream is a winterbourne - it flows only in winter or other periods of high rainfall and is usually dry in summer.”

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