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(n)
(Northeastern US) A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
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Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
(geography) A narrow inlet of the sea formed by a flooded unglaciated river valley.
(hydrology, US, Canada) A region of land within which water flows down into a specified body, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean; a drainage basin.
A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds; bight.
A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
A barangay of Baco, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines (unconfirmed).
A ratchet wrench.
A necklace of diamonds or other precious stones, especially one of several strings.
A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
(countable, biology) A range; a place where a species naturally occurs.
A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected.
(often attributive) undomesticated animals, especially mammals, birds, and fish, which live in the wild.
A body of water let into a coast, such as a bay, cove, fjord or estuary.
A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant.
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) Food.
(historical) Synonym of Malta.
A little brook.
A small stream; a streamlet; a gill.
A small stream, a rivulet.
A very small brook; a streamlet; a creek, rivulet.
A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
A small stream.
The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3256).
(v)
To move swiftly.
Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally).
(transitive) To clean with water.
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
A low tract of moist or marshy land.
Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw.
(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
Any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows.
Alternative form of creek bed. [The bed of a creek.]
A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.
The land forming the side of a creek.
A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
A sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.
A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
(hydrology) The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the bottom earthen part of a river, not including the riverbanks.
An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
A surname.
A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
A small lake.
The water that runs through a millrace to power a mill.
An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass or herbaceous plants. (Compare swamp, bog, fen, morass.)
A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
A ridge of sand caused by the action of waves along a shore.
A swamp; a marshy (stagnant) body of water.
The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
A body of water, such as a river, channel or canal, that is navigable.
Alternative form of mill race. [A fast-running water-filled channel diverted from a river or stream used to drive the millwheel in a watermill.]
The side of a hill.
the activity of fishing for trout
A major river in the northeastern United States, flowing from the state of New York, through Pennsylvania and Maryland to Chesapeake Bay.
The bank of a stream.
A state of Nigeria in the South South geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Port Harcourt.
A bank or side of a river.
A channel through which a stream flows or used to flow.
The crest that extends along the highest contours of a ridge.
(chiefly US) Flat land along a river, lying a few feet above normal high water, naturally fertile, and often consisting of alluvial deposits.
A pond or reservoir produced by damming a river or stream in order to provide a steady source of water for a millrace.
Obsolete spelling of ranch. [A large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock.]
(chiefly in the plural) The source (and the initial part) of a stream.
A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.
(informal) University of Pennsylvania
(geology) An outcrop of hard rock, often in the form of a cliff at the edge of a plateau, that forms the margin of a gravel deposit
A tannery, or a yard of a tannery.
An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
A knee or meander in a river.
(geology) A bench (thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by slopes).
The divide between land and a body of water.
(hydrology) A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.
A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.
An area of mud, possibly submerged, near the edge of a body of water.
Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
A river in southern Victoria, Australia, which flows through Melbourne to Port Phillip.
The segment of a river or route on a river which is traversed by watercraft.
A line of trees on the edge of a field or other open space marking the beginning of a woods or forest.
A flow of water over the edge of a cliff.