Definition of Wady:

part of speech: noun

A ravine through which water flows; the channel of a water- course which is dry except in the rainy season.

Usage examples:

• Probably, like Mourzuk, they lay low, in a wady or hollowed plain. James Richardson in "Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846".

• And we travelled to Wady Azgheer, and afterwards Wady Walas. James Richardson in "Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846".

• Thereupon he called up his courage and gathering up his skirts, cast himself into the water, and it bore him along with force exceeding and carrying him under the earth, stayed not till it brought him out into a deep Wady adown which ran a great river, that welled up from under the ground. Richard F. Burton in "Supplemental Nights, Volume 1".

• There is a wady near Ghat covered with senna, during rain, but the greater portion of senna is brought from Aheer. James Richardson in "Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846".