Water privilege

Wa´ter priv´i`lege


1.The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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These, with Concord River, are my water privileges; and night and day, year in year out, they grind such grist as I carry to them.
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There are, besides, of almost illimitable capacity - water privileges, coal fields, iron mines, gold diggings, gold quartz lodes, salmon fisheries, lumbering and manufacturing enterprises.
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