Definition of "kanats" []

• Plural form of kanat. (noun)

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• "Canals cut some twenty feet deep, like the _kanats_ of Persia, conduct the water to the fields."
• "There was an arrangement of loose-boxes in kanats, and she was in the next one talking to him. '"
• "The water is not very plentiful, as can be seen by the hundreds of borings for water and disused _kanats_ to the north of the city, where most fields are to be found, while the majority of fruit gardens and trees are to the east."