A cove will have just a narrowing opening to the sea, while a bight (#29) is a wide indent of the shore, like a bay but smaller and broader-these bights were historically a perfect safe harbor for pirates.Smaller still we call a cove (#28), a small recess or indent in the shoreline that forms a sheltered nook with a narrow entrance.Smaller than a gulf is a bay (#27) which is also largely landlocked but with a wider mouth.A gulf (#26) is the largest of these broad inlets, and tends to have a narrow mouth opening to the sea.The former is often found in coastal areas where the shoreline curves in, like a long broad indentation, so the sea is partially surrounded by land but with a wide mouth connected to the open ocean. There is sweeping category of bodies of water that are either partially or entirely surrounded by land. And the headwaters (#25) is the source, the very beginning of a river or stream.In the same realm, an estuary (#24) is where a river empties into the sea-the place where the mouth of the river meets out the ocean tide.(It can also mean the place where a river or stream empties into the ocean, combining freshwater into salt water.) A freshet (#23) is a sudden flow of freshwater from rapid heavy rain or melting snow after a spring thaw.A meander (#22) is just what it sounds like, a turn or bend in a winding river.a distributary (#21) is the opposite: a stream that branches off from the main river and flows away from it.A tributary (#20) for that matter is any stream that flows into a larger main stream or river, while.A bayou (#19) is very slow moving water, generally a tributary of a lake or river that is sluggish and marshy and filled with vegetation.A spring (#18) is when water flows up from under the ground to the surface.In Scotland and England, that’s sometimes called a burn (#17).a syke or sike (#16, another Old English term for small stream, especially one that is dry in summer).a ghyll (#15, a narrow stream or rivulet, or a ravine through which through small stream flows), and.a crick (#14, a variation in the pronunciation of creek in parts of the U.S.),.a beck (#13, a small river or synonym for stream or brook),.a bourn (#12, a small stream, particularly one that flows intermittently or seasonally),.a runnel, also called runlet, run, rundle or rindle (#10, again, a small stream or brook or rivulet),.a streamlet (#9, yep, a small stream,),.a kill (#8, an old Dutch term in colonial New York for creek or stream),.
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