RIVER
ADJECTIVES
► BIG of a river or water: swollen, in flood → 1890 Eng. dial.
► FLUMINOUS pertaining to rivers; abounding in rivers → 1656 obs.
► GULF-STOMACHED of a river: having deep eddies → 1611 obs.
► MULTIFLUVIAN entered by many rivers → 1807 poetic usage, obs.
► POTAMOPHILOUS loving rivers; having an affinity for rivers → 1827
► SMALL low, shallow: said of a river, water, etc. → 1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SUBFLUVIAL extending under a river → 1863
ADVERBS
► ASPAIT of a river: in flood → 1820 Sc.
NOUNS
► AE a river, a running water → 896 obs.
► AIT an island in a river → 1840 Eng. dial.
► ANA a river-island → 1820 Sc. obs.
► BACH ► BACHE a river or stream; the valley through which a stream flows → 1884 Eng. dial.
► BANKER a river in flood → 20C Aust. sl.
► BARRANCO a bluff or the steep bank of a river → 1892 Amer. dial.
► BAT a river-island → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► BATCH a river or stream; the valley through which a stream flows → 1884 Eng. dial.
► BIGHT a bay, a creek; a projection in a river → 1891 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BLUE HOLE a deep hole in a river or stream → 1951 Amer. dial.
► BRAE the bank of a river → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BURN a spring, a fountain; a stream or river; a small stream or brook → 1000
► CATHOLE a deep place in a river, creek, pond, etc. → 1842 Amer. dial.
► CREEK a turn, a winding, as of a river or crooked way → 1596 obs.
► CURRENT the course of a river or other flowing body → 1708 obs.
► CUTBACK a sharp bend or loop in a river → 1966 Amer. dial.
► DRIFT a passage of a river; a ford → 1849 S. Afr.
► DUMP a deep hole in the bed of a river or pond → 1788 Eng. dial.
► EA a river or the channel; a watercourse; also, water generally → 1662 Eng. dial.
► ELBOW a sharp bend in the course of a river, stream, road, etc. → 1591
► GREAVE the sandy shore of a river → 1579 obs.
► HEAD the source or spring of a stream or river → 1879 Eng. dial.
► INTERVAL a low ground beside a river → 1647 US
► KEECHAN a small rivulet → 1901 Sc. (Bk.)
► KELD ► KELL a well, a fountain, a spring; a deep, still, smooth part of a river → 1697 N. Eng. dial.
► LAKE a brook, rivulet, or stream → 1888 Eng. dial.
► LAND-WATERS rivers overflowing and flooding the land → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LEAP the sudden fall of a river to a lower level → 1796
► MOAT a river → M19 US criminals’ sl.
► OPEN the mouth or estuary of a river → 1710
► OSTIARY the mouth of a river → 1646 obs.
► OSTIUM the mouth of a river → 1611 obs.
► OX-BOW a semicircular bend in a river → 1797 US
► POTAMOPHOBIA a morbid fear of rivers → 1991 (Bk.)
► PRONG a branch of either a tree or a river → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► RACE a strong current in the sea or a river → 1375
► RACK a stretch or reach of a river → 1755 Sc.
► RANT a stream; a river → 1874 Eng. dial.
► RATCH ► RETCH a long stretch of a river, a straight course of navigable river, a reach; an intermediate distance between two points → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► REE a river; a flood → 1721 Eng. dial. obs.
► RIGOLET a rivulet → 1775 US
► RIVERLING a small stream or river; a rivulet → 1591
► RUNDLE a small stream or rivulet → 1587 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SCOUR a rapid flow over shallows in rivers or brooks; a rapid turn in brooks; the shallow part of a river or brook → 1865 Eng. dial.
► SHAKE (AND SHIVER) a river → 1960 UK rhyming sl.
► SINUOSITY a curve, bend, or winding in a road, river, valley, etc. → a1774
► SPLASH any form of water, eg. a river, a lake, a sea, a bath → 1940s African-American sl.
► SPRINGING the origin or source of a stream or river → 1382
► SPROUT a branch of a river → 1676 US & S. Afr. obs.
► STAND-AND-SHIVER a river → 1903 rhyming sl. (Bk.)
► SUCCOUR a tributary of a river → 1570 obs.
► VADE a shallow place in a river → 1538 obs.
► VEIN a streamlet or rivulet; a current → 1600 obs.
► YENLADE an estuary; the mouth of a river → 1656 Eng. dial. obs.
► YENLET an estuary; the mouth of a river → 1656 Eng. dial. obs.
NOUNS, PERSON
► AMNICOLIST one who dwells by a river → 1731 obs.
► RIVER RAT a person who lives or works on a river → 1884 Amer. dial., usually derogatory
► WHALER one who lives an idle, carefree existence on the banks of a river → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
PHRASES
► RUN A BANKER of a river: to be flowing up to the top of the banks → 1996 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
VERBS
► GURGITATE of a river: to discharge itself into the sea → 1907
► QUIRT of a river: to be dammed back → 1602 obs.
► WAFT to convey safely by water; to carry over or across a river, sea, etc. → 1593 obs. exc. poetic usage
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