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Definition of Headstream
1. Noun. A stream that forms the source of a river.
Definition of Headstream
1. Noun. A stream that is the source of a river ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Headstream
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headstream
Literary usage of Headstream
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1908)
"... its western headstream. This region is characterized by ita tabular form (only
broken by the deeply cut valleys of the ..."
2. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Élisée Reclus (1894)
"... been deposited in marine waters at an epoch antecedent to the appearance of
the surrounding trachytic rocks. The Rio Carchi, main headstream of the ..."
3. Africa by Augustus Henry Keane (1904)
"... whose upper course is locally called the Kako, is the farthest headstream of
the Albertine Nile, having its sources within British territory on the ..."
4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"Its main headstream, the ... rises in the mountains 115 miles northwest of Lake
Titicaca, and another headstream, the Mataro, comes within 100 miles of the ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... of cast equatorial Africa, the most remote headstream of the Nile. ...
emptying into the Victoria Nyanza and in that sense the headstream of the Nile. ..."
6. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1917)
"By some geographers the Guainia, rising in Southeastern Colombia, is considered
the headstream; others consider the headstream to be the Uaupes, ..."
7. The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland: Adapted to the New Poor-law (1846)
"... two affluents of the Bilboa rivulet rise in the western district, at elevations
of respectively 1098 and 1021 feet; a headstream of the ..."
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