OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14062

creek

/kɹiːk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
caleta
A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.
Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fiel…
There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken any way you please, is bad, / And strands them in forsaken guts and creeks / No decent soul would think of visiting.
arroyo • riachuelo
A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
We all feel it Looming, even when we're awake, out there ahead someplace, the way you come to feel a River or Creek ahead, before anything else,— sound, sky, vegetation,— may have…