headwaters

headwaters
noun /ˈhɛdˌwɑtɝz/
The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the rivers beginning.

... but when his brows began to wrinkle with time, and he stood alone, the last of his family, and his particular tribe, the few Delawares, who yet continued about the head-waters of their river, gave him the mournful appellation of Mohegan.


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  • headwaters — /hed waw teuhrz, wot euhrz/, n.pl. the upper tributaries of a river. [1525 35; HEAD + waters, pl. of WATER] * * * …   Universalium

  • headwaters —   the uppermost portion of a river course close to the source …   Geography glossary

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