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Plural water, because one body of it was never quite enough.
means Large stretches of sea, river, or lake — especially as a territory, zone, or amniotic flood.
from From Old English waeter, pluralized when humans started owning oceans and arguing about borders.
Legal senseTerritorial waters stretch twelve nautical miles offshore.
Birth termA pregnancy ends when the waters break.
Idiom magnetYou test, tread, and muddy them constantly.