Meaning Headwaters
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HeadwatersUpper portion of stream's drainage system.
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HeadwatersIn hydrologic terms, streams at the source of a river.
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Headwatersattested 1530s, then not again until 1792 (in descriptions of Kentucky), so possibly the modern word is a re-formation; see head (n.) "origin of a river" + water (n.1).
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HeadwatersThe upper reaches of a stream near its source.
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Headwatersthe uppermost portion of a river course close to the source.
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HeadwatersThe various tributaries of a stream or river in the area in which it rises (begins to flow).
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Headwatersstreams that are close to the source of the water in the system.
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HeadwatersStreams at the source of a river.
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HeadwatersSmall streams and creeks at the uppermost end of a river system.
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HeadwatersStreams at the source of a river.
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HeadwatersIn hydrologic terms, streams at the source of a river.
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HeadwatersThe source of a stream or river
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Headwatersthe water upstream from a dam
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HeadwatersIn hydrologic terms, streams at the source of a river.
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HeadwatersThe source and upper part of a large stream or river, including the drainage basin.
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The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
* '''1823:''' James Fenimore Cooper, ''The Pioneers''
*: ... but when his brows began to wrinkle with time, and he s [..]
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HeadwatersThe origin and upper reaches of a river or stream.
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HeadwatersThe source of a river.
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