Definition of "water-parting" [water-parting]

• Same as watershed. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Blessed with unaccountable gifts such as water-parting, the healing touch, flocking lepers at your door or the ability to spark two thousand years of senseless war?"
• "The site of our discovery was the water-parting of the Wady"
• "In the morning the northern air and fresh wind of this desert were so cool to us that we made a hot breakfast before we cranked up the cars and purred over the meeting of Um Kharug and Dhirwa, over the broad basin of Dhirwa itself, and past its imperceptible water-parting into the Jesha."