Blackwater Definition

blăkwôtər, -wătər
noun
Wastewater from toilets.
Webster's New World
Wastewater containing bodily or other biological wastes, as from toilets, dishwashers, or kitchen drains, and kept separate from graywater in wastewater recycling systems.
American Heritage Medicine
Water, as in a river or swamp, that has absorbed tannins from decaying vegetation, acquiring a dark brown color.
American Heritage Medicine

Other Word Forms of Blackwater

Noun

Singular:
blackwater
Plural:
blackwaters

Blackwater Sentence Examples

  • Bathrooms include holding tanks for both blackwater and graywater (although not very large compared to your home's septic system, so use caution!) and source water tanks for the times you are not hooked up to a water supply at a campground.

  • It is beautifully situated on a steep eminence rising abruptly from the Blackwater.

  • Within two months he was again in the field, and on the 14th of August he destroyed an English force under Bagnal at the Yellow Ford on the Blackwater.

  • Considerable additions to the knowledge of the region were made by this expedition, five out of the nine white members of which died from blackwater fever.'

  • It is situated on the river Blackwater, which divides the town into two parts, the larger of which is on the southern bank, and there the trade of the town, which is chiefly in flour and agricultural produce, is mainly carried on.

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