washaway

See also: wash away

English

Etymology

Deverbal from wash away.

Noun

washaway (plural washaways)

1. (chiefly Australia) The washing away of earth, a road, structure etc. by flood, or the channel caused by this. [from 19th c.]

   Synonym: (North America) washout

   Coordinate term: slipout

   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 145:

     It was the giddy sight down the gullies below the twisting road which had been formed and re-formed from years of washaways, and now hung like fish gills, out over edges of the limestone substrata.