aqueduct
/ˈæk.wəˌdʌkt/ noun C2- An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another.
- A structure carrying water over a river or depression, especially an ancient structure.
- A structure conveying fluid, such as the cerebral aqueduct or vestibular aqueduct.
Plural aqueducts
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Now and then a jolt more violent than the rest caused him to open his eyes; then he felt that he was still being carried with great rapidity over the same country, thickly strewn with broken aqueducts, which looked like granite giants petrified while running a race.
He then saw the great aqueducts, those stone phantoms which he had before remarked, only then they were on the right hand, now they were on the left.
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