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Keywords: tributary, river, watercourse, inlet, tidal

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.

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A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.

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Small stream.

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a small branch or tributary of a river; not typically a placename as such unless associated with a road crossing; sometimes the designation of an area or settlement along a creek; sometimes a place name for a church: Crow Creek, Wiggins Creek, Battle Creek Baptist Church.

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A small inlet in the ice cliffs. They tend to fill with snow and allow easy access from the ice shelf onto the frozen sea. There is a series of Creeks to the north of Halley numbered from one to ten.

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n. (ME. creke, crike, from ON. -kriki, bend, concavity; akin to ON. krikr, bend, bay) a natural stream of water normally smaller than and often tributary to a river.

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a naturally formed channel at the mouth of a river which carries tidal water back into the sea

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a sea within land, as the Adriatic Sea, and the Persian Sea

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a tributary (smaller branch) of a river

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A natural watercourse that is usually a tributary of a river or another creek. It may be perennial or non-perennial and in some areas its course may become indefinite or even peter out.

gnb.nsw.gov.au

A naturally flowing stream that is usually considered smaller than and often tributary to a river.[ J K U V X Y Z

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(1) A STREAM, less predominant than a RIVER, and generally tributary to a RIVER. (2) A small tidal CHANNEL through a coastal MARSH.

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a natural stream of water usually small in size and often a tributary of a river.

riversmallies.com

a stream of water smaller than a river, often a tributary to a river

montereybay.noaa.gov

a watercourse smaller than, and often tributary to, a river.

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Keywords: muskogee, confederacy, alabama, oklahoma, floodplain

any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma

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a dynamic, living resource that moves within its channel and floodplain, and adapts to natural and human-induced changes within its environment

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a part of the lives of all the people and animals who live within its watershed

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Keywords: waterway, mmda, runoff, irrigation, commerce

a waterway or runoff, or irrigation canal, and therefore, the MMDA notes, must be "beyond the commerce of man"

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Small waterways.

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Keywords: frenetic, unity, simplicity, town, relief

a model of unity and simplicity, offering a frenetic town relief from its willful activities

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Keywords: streamside, grasses, sweet, cool, eat

a cool place to sit, and streamside grasses are sweet to eat

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Keywords: optimara, miniature, little, variety, girl

Optimara miniature variety. See Little Creek Girl.

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Keywords: neighboring, seam, joining, fabric, communities

a joining seam in the fabric of neighboring communities"

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Keywords: winding, turn

Any turn or winding.

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