Definitionn. a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam
Last update: June 9, 2015
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Meshra-er-Rek, the chief station and trading centre of the first European visitors to the country, is on a backwater south of this lake. [Please select]
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The backwater sometimes reaches up the tributary for more than 10 miles. [Please select]
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A quiet talk with Septimus was an hour in a backwater, curiously restful. [Please select]
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This'll be a backwater as soon as the current starts going over the dam.' [Please select]
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The stillness of the room seemed a backwater of the intenser stillness of the night without. [Please select]
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Here's our backwater at last, where we're going to lunch.' [Please select]
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All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all. [Please select]
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We were roaming around in the backwater of war, you might say. [Please select]
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When the Tennessee rises to flood height the backwater comes into the bed of this stream through the cave before submerging the low ridge between it and the river. [Please select]
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The only possible safety lay in keeping to mid-stream and sweeping along with the current until something should turn up--a boat--a log--possibly a backwater, or even the breakwater of a bridge. [Please select]
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