Water-course

A stream of water, usually flowing in a defined channel, and discharging itself into some other stream or other body of water. Water-mark: means, when referred to as a boundary, the mark to which water ordinarily ascends or descends. Water-power: the fall in a stream in its natural state. Water-measure: a measure greater than Winchester measure by about three gallons in the bushel.

In English law

Water-bailiff: an officer in port towns, whose duties in general relate to the searching of ships.

In old English law

Water-gang: a passage for water; a trench to carry a stream of water, such as were usually made in sea-walls, to drain water out of the marshes. Water-gavel: a gavel or rent paid for fishing in, or other benefit received from, some river or water. In Saxon and old English law. Water-ordeal: the ordeal or trial by water, which was by plunging the bare arm up to the elbow in boiling water, or by casting the person suspected into a river or pond of cold water.