washaway

See also: wash away

English

Etymology

Deverbal from wash away.

Noun

washaway (plural washaways)

  1. (chiefly Australia) The washing away of earth, a road, structure etc. by flood, or the channel caused by this. [from 19th c.]
    Synonym: (North America) washout
    Coordinate term: slipout
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 145:
      It was the giddy sight down the gullies below the twisting road which had been formed and re-formed from years of washaways, and now hung like fish gills, out over edges of the limestone substrata.
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