water-inch

water-inch
/waw"teuhr inch", wot"euhr-/, n. Hydraulics.
the quantity of water (approx. 500 cubic feet) discharged in 24 hours through a circular opening of one inch diameter leading from a reservoir in which the water is constantly only high enough to cover the orifice.
[1850-55]

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