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Definition of Rainwash
1. Noun. (geography) The washing action of rain, capable of erosion and transporting soil. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rainwash
1. to wash material downhill by rain [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rainwash
Literary usage of Rainwash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Student's Handbook of Stratigraphical Geology by Alfred John Jukes-Browne (1902)
"539 were found ill the old beach and in the overlying rainwash. ... rainwash 2.
Pebble beach ) 1. Chalk. clay have been derived from the Carboniferous rocks ..."
2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1903)
"The presence of the land-shells proves that the rubble is a subaerial rainwash,
and that it was formed when the sea stood at a lower level than when the ..."
3. Herculaneum, Past, Present & Future by Charles Waldstein (1908)
"The loams left by flood water and the ordinary rainwash at the bottom of any
slope are generally very uniform in texture, except where lines of coarser ..."
4. Herculaneum, Past, Present & Future by Charles Waldstein (1908)
"The loams left by flood water and the ordinary rainwash at the bottom of any
slope are generally very uniform in texture, except where lines of coarser ..."
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