Creek

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  • noun. A small stream, often a shallow or intermittent tributary to a river.
  • noun. A channel or stream running through a salt marsh.
  • noun. A small inlet in a shoreline, extending farther inland than a cove.
  • idiom. (up the creek (without a paddle)) In a difficult, unfortunate, or inextricable position.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A small inlet, bay, or cove; a recess in the shore of the sea or of a river, or of any considerable body of water.
  • noun. A small stream; a brook; a rivulet. See crick.
  • noun. A turn or winding.
  • noun. Hence A device; an artifice; a trick.
  • noun. A small seaboard town of insufficient importance to have a customs-station of its own.
  • To twist and wind; form a creek.
  • noun. An obsolete spelling of creak.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.
  • noun. A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
  • noun. Any turn or winding.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.
  • noun. A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
  • noun. Any turn or winding.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma
  • noun. a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
  • Word Usage
    "Over the divide at the head of this creek is a tributary of the Big Windy."
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    bay  brook  canal  cave  cove  
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