Hypertext Webster Gateway: "creek"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
creek
n 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 of Muskhogean peoples
(especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and
Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma [syn: {Creek}]
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