= WATERSHED 1. (See quot. 1877.)
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 26. A similar expanse of stony ridges and uplands forming the great western waterparting.
1877. Huxley, Physiogr., 18. To avoid this double use of the word ‘watershed’ the term ‘water-parting’ has been introduced as the English equivalent of the German Wasserscheide.
1901. Q. Rev., July, 16. The water-parting between the systems of Lake Chad, the Niger, and the Congo.
