noun. A dead-end channel extending from the main stream of a river.

noun. A streambed filled with water only in the rainy season.

noun. A stagnant pool or backwater.

noun. In Australia, a stream which flows away from the main stream (in some cases returning to it at a farther point); an effluent. Also billibong, billybong.

noun. In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

noun. A stagnant pool of water.

noun. A streambed that is only filled with water during the rainy season.

noun. A channel that dead-ends which extends from the main part of a river.

noun. An oxbow lake.

noun. a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high

noun. a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently

"A fossicker is one who goes along the river banks panning for gold, and a billabong is a water-hole or washing place."

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