Assertion: river's stage | /r/CapableOf | point -stream
Facets:
value: slightly
type: DEGREE
value: to direct the water
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: This can be effected by closing subsidiary low-water channels with dikes across them, and narrowing the channel at the low stage by low-dipping cross dikes extending from the river banks down the slope and pointing slightly up-stream so as to direct the water flowing over them into a central channel.