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Definition of Corrades
1. corrade [v] - See also: corrade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corrades
Literary usage of Corrades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"As it is diverted from its course it strikes with force against the opposite
bank, and into this bank it corrades. If the banks are but slightly coherent ..."
2. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"It abrades, through the stones at bottom, rocky surfaces passed over, and corrades
the transported material, making rock-flour, sand, gravel, and smoothed ..."
3. A Text-book of Geology for Use in Universities: Colleges, Schools of Science by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1920)
"The effectiveness with which a river corrades depends on several closely related
things; on the tools with which the river has to work, on the amount of ..."
4. Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains by Clarence Edward Dutton, Grove Karl Gilbert (1880)
"This result also is independent of the number and equality of the branches: and
it is equally true that in any river system which traverses and corrades ..."
5. Rivers of North America: A Reading Lesson for Students of Geography and Geology by Israel Cook Russell (1898)
"... and in some instances the less heavily loaded water, when much decreased in
volume, corrades channels through deposits made during high-water stage. ..."
6. The Physiography of the United States: Ten Monographs by National Geographic Society (U.S.), J. W. Powell (1896)
"... the swifter is the current; and the swifter the current, the more rapidly the
rocks are cut away. So the river corrades its ..."
7. Agricultural Geology by Frederick Valentine Emerson (1920)
"The valley grows at its head because the slopes here are steeper and the water
runs faster and, therefore, corrades rapidly. Such erosion at the heads of ..."
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