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Look up: billabong

  1. billabong
    [n] - (Australian) a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently 2. [n] - a branch of a river running to a dead end
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. billabong
    a blind channel leading out from a river; a backwater Category: The cosmos
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Billabong
    Bil'la·bong` noun [ Native name.] In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch . This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere bac...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/51

  4. billabong
    noun a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Billabong
    • (n.) In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. Billabong
    Billabong is Australian slang for waterhole.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  7. Billabong
    Billabong is Australian slang for waterhole.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  8. Billabong
    Billabong is an Australian term for a pool of water, or a blind channel.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  9. Billabong
    `Billabong` is an Australian English word meaning a small lake, specifically an oxbow lake, a section of still water adjacent to a river, cut off by a change in the watercourse.<ref name=Clarke>http://www.rogerclarke.com/WM/WMTerms.html Clarke, R. "Australianisms in `Waltzing Matilda`",...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billabong

  10. Billabong
    (clothing) :For other meanings, see Billabong (disambiguation) `Billabong International` is a clothing company traded on the Australian Securities Exchange since 11 August 2000. Billabong was founded in 1973 by Gordon and Rena Merchant. The name came from the same word billabong, which...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billabong



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