Definition of "water-shed" [water-shed]

• Alternative spelling of watershed. (noun)

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• "President Obama's speech in Cairo was widely lauded as a water-shed event in Arab-US relations for the tone he adopted in reaching out to the Arab world."
• "The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme moment, was the beginning of the other water-shed of the pavement, which had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water like"
• "Proceeded on a north course, and at seven miles crossed what seemed to be a water-shed, seemingly running to the west of north."