(stress var.), a. [Parasynthetic f. wide water (WIDE a. + WATER sb.) + -ED2, or f. WIDE adv. + WATERED ppl. a.] Having a wide expanse of water; watered over a wide extent; bordered or traversed by wide waters.

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1632.  Milton, Penseroso, 75. I hear the far-off Curfeu sound, Over som wide-water’d shoar.

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1718.  Pope, Iliad, XV. 761. Amidst the Plain of some wide-water’d Fen.

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1749.  G. West, trans. Pindar, Pythian Odes, I. xvii. (1753), I. 99. But on fair Himera’s wide-water’d Shores, Thy Sons, Dinomenes, my Lyre demand.

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1904.  Edith Rickert, Reaper, ix. 100. They sailed … past low-lying, wide-watered Balta.

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