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noun

Creek n.

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. "Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore." "They discovered a certain creek, with a shore."

A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook. "Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated creeks."

Any turn or winding. "The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands."

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Etymology of 'Creek'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Creek" Quotes from Famous Books

... the creek, he dipped head and shoulders into the water, letting the chill of the stream flush away some of his waking bewilderment. He shook himself, making the drops fly from his uncovered torso and arms, and then ...

— Star Hunter • Andre Alice Norton

... Divide before a heavy snowfall made travel difficult, if not impossible. We had no wish to be snowbound for the winter in those wilds, with only two weeks' supply of food, and it was for this same reason we had not stopped to hunt that grizzly who had left a fourteen inch track over on Wiggins' Creek—the same being Wahb of the Big Horn Basin, about whom I shall ...

— A Woman Tenderfoot • Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

... which we had now left, I gave the name of Endeavour River. It is only a small bar, harbour, or creek, which runs in a winding channel three or four leagues inland, and at the head of which there is a small brook of fresh water: There is not depth of water for shipping above a mile within the bar, and at ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 • Robert Kerr

... silent, except that every now and then it was broken by those strange woodland sounds, like smothered cries or groans, seeming to proceed out of the heart of the wood at a great distance. We lay in a sandy creek with banks of pines on each side, rising up very black against the sky, which had that still green enamelled look that it gets on a very quiet evening. At the far end of the creek was a large marsh covered with the white cotton rush then in bloom; it caused a strange glimmering which ...

— Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge • Arthur Christopher Benson

... preparations for wintering. He first searched for a creek whose position would shelter the ship from the wind and breaking up of the ice. Land, which was probably thirty miles west, could alone offer him secure shelter, and he resolved to attempt to ...

— A Winter Amid the Ice - and Other Thrilling Stories • Jules Verne

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