3. (Law)

Defn: A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry. Angell. Burrill.

WATERCOURSE
Wa"ter*course`, n. (Shipbuilding)

Defn: One of the holes in floor or other plates to permit water to flow through.

WATER CRAFT
Wa"ter craft`.

Defn: Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.

WATER CRAKE Wa"ter crake`. (Zoöl.) (a) The dipper. (b) The spotted crake (Porzana maruetta). See Illust. of Crake. (c) The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.

WATER CRANE
Wa"ter crane`.

Defn: A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.

WATER CRESS
Wa"ter cress`. (Bot.)