corrivation
nounEtymology From Latin corrivatio.
1
Obsolete The flowing of different streams into one.
- […] and so likewise about corrivations of water to moisten and refresh barren grounds, to drain fens, bogs, and moors.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
2
The concentration of waters from a watershed to a remote outlet.