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Watercourse vs Rine - What's the difference?

watercourse | rine |

As nouns the difference between watercourse and rine

is that watercourse is any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows while rine is a watercourse or ditch or rine can be .

As a verb rine is

to touch.

watercourse

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows

    • Hyponyms

    *

    rine

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) rinen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (rin)
  • To touch.
  • To concern; affect.
  • To pertain to; fall to.
  • To tend to a certain effect or outcome.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) rune, from (etyl) . See (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A watercourse or ditch.

    • Etymology 3

    Variation of (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)