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Definition of Anicut
1. n. A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation.
Definition of Anicut
1. a dam [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anicut
Literary usage of Anicut
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"The construction of the anicut will render certain the existing ... From the
anicut, a main channel, leading from a head sluice on the north bank of the ..."
2. A Political and General History of the District of Tinnevelly, in the by Robert Caldwell (1881)
"A cow, it seems, was sent forth as a guide, and wherever the cow lay down an
anicut was to be constructed. The cow lay down six times between ..."
3. Irrigation Canals and Other Irrigation Works: Including the Flow of Water in by Patrick John Flynn (1892)
"A description of this anicut has already been given in Article 28. This anicut
rests upon a bed of coarse sand of unknown depth, through which an incessant ..."
4. Irrigation Works by B. O. Reynolds (1906)
"The Kistna anicut.—The weir across the river Kistna is one of the most remarkable
of this class. Plate IV and Fig. 30. It was built in 1854-55. ..."
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