Definition of "land-water" [land-water]

• Fresh water flowing over the land; flood water; the water of lakes, rivers, springs, etc., as opposed to sea-water. (noun)
• Open water between the ice of a frozen sea and a coast. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Many scientists have concluded that this discrepancy could be explained by uncertainties in the estimated rates or other processes related to changes in land-water storage that have been difficult to quantify."
• "Although she has more recently retracted her idea that kosher food rules are based upon the maintenance of clear categories (so, for example, fish with scales are clearly associated with the water realm and may be eaten; amphibians crossing the land-water boundary may not), the purity of categories in general remains a key component of what is orderly and right."
• "Senate to an acolyte, a dittoman for the hard-line AIPAC lobby, which bolsters the militaristic oppression, occupation, blockage, colonization and land-water seizures over the years of the Palestinian peoples and their shrunken territories in the West Bank and Gaza."