washaway

See also: wash away

English

Etymology

From the verb phrase wash away.

Noun

washaway (plural washaways)

1. (chiefly Australia) The washing away of earth, a road, structure etc. by flood, or the channel caused by this. [from 19th c.]
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 145:

     It was the giddy sight down the gullies below the twisting road which had been formed and re-formed from years of washaways, and now hung like fish gills, out over edges of the limestone substrata.