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red water en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A cattle disease, with one symptom being reddish urine.
    • “Soon afther, some mischances begun to happen to the farmer's cattle; a horse tuk the staggers, a fine vale calf died o' the black-lig, an' some uv his sheep o' the rid wather[.]” 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 525:
  2. (uncountable) A wastewater created in the manufacture of TNT.

Deriveds

redwater fever · Rhodesian redwater fever