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Tailwaters vs Headwaters - What's the difference?

tailwaters | headwaters |

As nouns the difference between tailwaters and headwaters

is that tailwaters is plural of lang=en while headwaters is the source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.

tailwaters

English

Noun

(head)

    • headwaters

    English

    Alternative forms

    * head-waters * head waters

    Noun

    (-) (pluralonly)
  • The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
  • * 1823: James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers
    • ... but when his brows began to wrinkle with time, and he stood alone, the last of his family, and his particular tribe, the few Delawares, who yet continued about the head-waters of their river, gave him the mournful appellation of Mohegan.