Lexicographical Neighbors of Anicuts
Literary usage of Anicuts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"... rice is grown in the river valleys, wherever the fields can be irrigated by
means of artificial channels drawn off from the rivers by anicuts or dams. ..."
2. A Political and General History of the District of Tinnevelly, in the by Robert Caldwell (1881)
"One form of the legend is that all the anicuts were made by the same person.
A cow, it seems, was sent forth as a guide, and wherever the cow lay down an ..."
3. A Treatise on Rivers and Canals: Relating to the Control and Improvement of by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1882)
"WEIBS. Weir Defined. Overfall Weirs. Oblique Weir ; Angular and Horseshoe Weirs ;
Construction. anicuts. ..."
4. Rivers and Canals: The Flow, Control, and Improvement of Rivers and the by Leveson-Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1896)
"... object; Angular and Horse-shoe Weirs, advantages, forms; Construction; anicuts,
methods of construction, instances, defects. ..."
5. Irrigation Works by B. O. Reynolds (1906)
"Principal types of anicuts— (1) That in which the water passing the crest is
dropped at once, or by steps, on to a horizontal apron or on to rock. ..."
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