Winterbourne

Quick meaning: Winterbourne is a noun meaning (British) A stream that only flows in winter or after wet weather, particularly in an area rich in limestone.

Meaning

(British) A stream that only flows in winter or after wet weather, particularly in an area rich in limestone.

Example Sentences

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

[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.

Word Forms

• winterbournes

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