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Creek : (noun)
1: a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a
tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer"
[syn: brook]
2: any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the
Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now
chiefly in Oklahoma [syn: Creek]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Creeks \Creeks\ (kr[=e]ks), n. pl.; sing. Creek. (Ethnol.)
A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including
the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate
tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and
Alabama.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Creek : \Creek\ (kr[=e]k), n. [AS. crecca; akin to D. kreek, Icel.
kriki crack, nook; cf. W. crig crack, crigyll ravine, creek.
Cf. Crick, Crook.]
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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CREEK, mar. law. Creeks are of two kinds, viz. creeks of the sea and creeks
of ports. The former sorts are such little inlets of the sea whether within
the precinct or extent of a, port or without, which are narrow little
passages and have shore on either side of them. The latter, Viz. breaks of
ports, are by a kind of civil denomination such. They are such, that though
possibly for their extent and. situation they might be ports, yet they are
either members of or dependent upon other ports. In England it began thus:
the king, could not conveniently have a customer and comptroller in every
port or haven. But these custom officers were fixed at some eminent port;
and the smaller adjacent ports became by that means creeks, or appendants.
of that where these custom officers were placed. 1 Chit. Com. Law, 726;
Hale's Tract. de Portibus Maris, part 2, c. 1, vol. 1, p. 46; Com. Dig.
Navigation, C; Callis, 34.
2. In a more popular sense,Creek : signifies a small stream, less than a
river. 12 Pick. R. 184,
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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