washaway
See also: wash away
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editwashaway (plural washaways)
- (chiefly Australia) The washing away of earth, a road, structure etc. by flood, or the channel caused by this. [from 19th c.]
- 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.