"water parting" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: water partings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} water parting (plural water partings)
  1. A summit from whose opposite sides rainwater flows into different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide; a watershed.
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Inflected forms

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