[f. waters’ gen. pl. of WATER sb. + MEET sb.; app. first as a place-name (near Exmoor).] A meeting-point of two streams.
1828. T. H. Williams, Devonshire, II. 17. Below is a part of the river, the general boundary of excursions from Lynmouth, called Waters Meet, a small stream joining the East Lyn, on its left bank…. Waters-Meet is accessible by ponies, from Contisbury.
1864. Blackmore, Clara Vaughan, xxxiv. The haze that hovers above the watersmeet.
1883. Lang, Leaf & Myers, Iliad, 78. As when the torrents of winter flow down the mountains to a watersmeet [Gr. ἐς μισγάγκειαν].
