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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

... further alienation of Indian lands by limiting the authority of irresponsible local chiefs and conferring it upon a congress of warriors from all allied tribes. During the year 1808, Tecumseh and the Prophet laid the foundation of a confederacy by establishing an Indian village on Tippecanoe Creek, one hundred and fifty miles ...

— Union and Democracy • Allen Johnson

... this period concerns his first realization of the grim mystery of death. He went off one day with the son of the wealthiest man in the town to bathe in the creek. Soon after they entered the water the other boy disappeared. Young Edison waited around the spot for half an hour or more, and then, as it was growing dark, went home puzzled and lonely, but silent as to the occurrence. About two hours afterward, ...

— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

... Northwest. For years Tecumseh had been striving to unite the red men of the West and South in a supreme effort to roll back the swelling tide of white immigration. In 1811 he made a pilgrimage to the southern tribes, and his most fervent appeal was to that powerful body of Indians known as the Creek Confederacy, who lived in what is now the eastern part of Alabama and the southwestern part of Georgia. These proud and warlike Indians were divided into two branches. The Upper Creeks had their homes along the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers, and their villages extended ...

— Andrew Jackson • William Garrott Brown

... low but the rain was gentle when she started down the road, and her shawl made a bright spot between the fields, green as chromos. Mary had gone toward the creek, and she followed as far as the bridge; then, as there was no one in sight, she turned up-stream. It was deep just there and very full, carrying leaves and twigs so that it was like a little flood, and the water caught the dipping branches ...

— Shapes that Haunt the Dusk • Various

... of lightning and rain on its way to its work on a sunny desert day is a glorious object. Across the canon, opposite the hotel, is a little tributary of the Colorado called Bright Angel Creek. A fountain-cloud still better deserves the name "Angel of the Desert Wells"—clad in bright plumage, carrying cool shade and living water to countless animals and plants ready to perish, noble in form and gesture, seeming ...

— The Grand Canon of the Colorado • John Muir

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