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(oceanography) A classification of sea inlet; a depression in the land flooded by the sea during the Holocene transgression and connected to the sea by a narrow passage.
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(Southern US) A low ditch running along the side of a road.
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An artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a river designed to increase its depth or to divert its flow.
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A sea bed or a river bed that has been raised or elevated.
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A person's body brought to a state of physical attractiveness for display in swimwear at the beach.
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Alternative spelling of beachhead [(military) An area of hostile territory (especially on a beach) that, when captured, serves for the continuous landing (or movement into position) of further troops and material]
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Obtained by beachcombing
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A long rolling wave of the sea.
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(archaic, literary) Having a beach.
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A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered, for deepening shallow parts in a river.
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(geography) A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
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(on beaches) A wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.
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A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
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A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
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Obsolete form of bayou. [A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.]
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(Britain, historical, often capitalized, used on maps) An entry to a mill lead taken from a burn or stream (a mill lead (or mill waterway) is generally smaller than a canal but moves a large volume of water).
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(obsolete) An embankment holding in water; a dam.
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The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
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Abbreviation of creek. [(Britain) A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.]
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Alternative spelling of creek bed [The bed of a stream.]
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Pronunciation spelling of creek. [(Britain) A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.]
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The area of land where a dam is built
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A waterfall in Wassen Creek, Devil’s Staircase Wilderness, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon, United States; a multi-tiered low cascading waterfall.
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(obsolete) Alternative form of dike [(US dialect slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man.]
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dikes generally, or their construction
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(US dialect slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man.
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Alternative spelling of Dike [A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a dike.]
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(Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.
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(nautical) A large sandbank, and associated fishing ground, in the North Sea between Great Britain and Denmark.
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(UK, dialect) A dimple or dint.
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(UK, dialectal) A narrow passage.
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(dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
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Containing a dyke (ditch).
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(UK dialectal, Scotland) An isthmus or narrow neck of land jutting out into the sea; a sandbank cast up by the sea across the head of an open bight or inlet and having a lagoon inside it.
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(Scotland) A wall of turf.
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Alternative form of February fill-dike [A rural appellation for the month of February, when rain or melting snow fills dykes with water.]
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A rural appellation for the month of February, when rain or melting snow fills dykes with water.
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Alternative form of February fill-dike [A rural appellation for the month of February, when rain or melting snow fills dykes with water.]
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(archaic outside UK) A wild field or upland moor.
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Alternative form of February fill-dike [A rural appellation for the month of February, when rain or melting snow fills dykes with water.]
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Alternative form of February fill-dike [A rural appellation for the month of February, when rain or melting snow fills dykes with water.]
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A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
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The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
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(colloquial) A portion of a tire, such as seen on the side of a highway.
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To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
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An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater.
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A floodgate; a sluice gate.
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(UK) A road or track that is significantly lower than the land on either side, not formed by recent engineering but possibly of much greater age.
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A body of water impounded within an enclosure, such as a reservoir
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Obsolete spelling of jetty [A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.]
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A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.
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(UK, dialect, obsolete outside of place names) The mouth of a river.
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(dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
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(UK dialectal) A shallow or more or less intermittent spring.
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An artificial watercourse, canal, or aqueduct, but especially a millrace.
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(transitive) To attend the levee or levees of.
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Obsolete spelling of levee [An elevated geographical feature.]
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(Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
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A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.
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(UK dialectal) A close narrow lane; a cul-de-sac.
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Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a breakwater, etc.
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(now UK regional) An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.
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To wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does.
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To reclaim an area of ground from a sea or lake by means of dikes.
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A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
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(UK, dialect) A dike; a marsh or fen.
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(Saskatchewan) A ditch alongside a road or highway.
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(obsolete) A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable.
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seasoned to or hardened by the sea.
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(uncommon) A white-topped wave in an estuary.
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stained by contact with seawater
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(historical) A costermonger's barrow.
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The part of a swimming pool with relatively shallow water
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(rare) The bank of a river etc.
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(obsolete except Scotland) A sewer.
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(UK, dialect) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
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(archaic) A small channel of water.
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(North English) A levee or dike made from stones laid in horizontal rows with a bed of thin turf between each of them.
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(intransitive) Of a cave passage, to end in a sump, or to fill completely with water on occasion.
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(UK, military, slang) Any sea.
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A bank of earth raised round a field to retain water let in for the purpose of enriching land.
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(UK, law, obsolete) A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
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(obsolete) A fordable stream.
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