Word Meanings - CREEK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

crack, nook; cf. W. crig crack, crigyll ravine, creek. Cf. Crick, 1. 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.

Additional info about word: CREEK

crack, nook; cf. W. crig crack, crigyll ravine, creek. Cf. Crick, 1. 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. Cowper. They discovered a certain creek, with a shore. Acts xxvii. 39. 2. A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook. Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated creeks. Goldsmith. 3. Any turn or winding. The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CREEK)

• Rill
• Streamlet
• brook
• brooklet
• creek
• rivulet

Related words: (words related to CREEK)

• STREAMLET
  A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
• CREEKS
  A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.
• BROOK
  A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek. The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Shak. (more info) LG. brok, marshy
• BROOKITE
  A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
• CREEK
  crack, nook; cf. W. crig crack, crigyll ravine, creek. Cf. Crick, 1. 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.
• BROOK MINT
  See MINT
• CREEKY
  Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding. "The creeky shore." Spenser.
• CREEKFISH
  The chub sucker.
• BROOKSIDE
  The bank of a brook.
• BROOKWEED
  A small white-flowered herb found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.
• BROOKLIME
  A plant , with flowers, usually blue, in
• BROOKLET
  A small brook.
• RIVULET
  A small stream or brook; a streamlet. By fountain or by shady rivulet He sought them. Milton.
• ABROOK
  To brook; to endure. Shak.