1) American jazz ensemble 2) Body of water 3) Exclusively Saxon word 4) Exclusively Anglo word 5) Isolated place 6) Retreat from a stand taken 7) Row in reverse 8) Smooth jazz ensemble 9) Underdeveloped region 10) Water 11) Word of purely Anglo origin 12) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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1) Bogan 2) Hicksville 3) Slough 4) Slue 5) Snye
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[river] A backwater is a part of a river in which there is little or no current. It refers either to a branch of a main river which lies alongside it and then rejoins it or to a body of water in a main river which is backed up by an obstruction such as the tide or a dam. ==Alternative channel== If a river has developed one or more alternati...
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• (n.) Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar. • (n.) Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer. • (n.) An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruct...
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Shallow area of a river that is sometimes isolated, often being located behind a sand bar or other obstruction in the river. Large backwaters tat are isolated may be referred to as oxbows.
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Shallow area off a river.
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Back'wa`ter noun [
Back , adjective or adverb +
-water .]
1. Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current, or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.
2. An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, cause...
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an area of a river that is sometimes isolated
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[
n] - any backward region that is isolated from the world and resists progress
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noun any backward region that is isolated from the world and resists progress
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