rivery

rivery

English

Etymology

river +‎ -y

Adjective

rivery (comparative more rivery, superlative most rivery)

1. Having rivers.

   a rivery country

2. Resembling or characteristic of a river.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 10 p. 159:

     Thy full and youthfull breasts, which in their meadowy pride,

     Are brancht with rivery veines, Meander-like that glide.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rivery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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Noun

rivery

1. Sported or freak grains which spoil the produce.

References

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 135