washaway
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The first report of damage was received at 5.45 a.m. on Monday, July 30, when there was a slight washaway of the bank on the down side of the line two miles north of Daviot station, and subsequently further damage was reported between Inverness and Daviot. Shortly afterwards, a washaway occurred on the line between Dunphail and Dava, and this route was closed to all traffic from 10.30 a.m. until 3.30 p.m."
- "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."