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creeknoun a natural body of running water smaller than a riverthe shallow creek that runs in back of our house beck(British), bourn(or bourne), brook, brooklet, burn(British), gill(British), rill, rivulet, run(chiefly Midland), runlet, runnel, streamlet arroyo, billabong(Australian), fresh, freshet, runoffbayou, coulee, slough(also slew or slue), stream, washcanal, channel, cut, cutoff, gut, kill, millrace, millstream, race, watercourse, waterwayaffluent, branch, confluent, distributary, influent, tributary chiefly Britisha part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shorelineexplored many of the creeks along the Cornwall coast of England arm, bay, bight, cove, embayment, estuary, firth, fjord(also fiord), gulf, inlet, loch(Scottish) harbor, port, road(s), roadsteadnarrow, sound, straitbayoubackwater, slough(also slew or slue) in the 13th century |