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creeksnounpl. of creek a natural body of running water smaller than a riverthe shallow creek that runs in back of our house becks(British), bourns(or bournes), brooklets, brooks, burns(British), gills(British), rills, rivulets, runlets, runnels, runs(chiefly Midland), streamlets arroyos, billabongs(Australian), freshes, freshets, runoffsbayous, coulees, sloughs(also slews or slues), streams, washescanals, channels, cutoffs, cuts, guts, kills, millraces, millstreams, races, watercourses, waterwaysaffluents, branches, confluents, distributaries, influents, tributaries chiefly Britisha part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shorelineexplored many of the creeks along the Cornwall coast of England arms, bays, bights, coves, embayments, estuaries, firths, fjords(also fiords), gulfs, inlets, lochs(Scottish) harbors, ports, roads, roadsteadsnarrows, sounds, straitsbayousbackwaters, sloughs(also slews or slues) |