creek

1. (British) A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.Examples: "Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea."; "There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken any way you please, is bad, / And strands them in forsaken guts and creeks / No decent soul would think of visiting."British

2. (British) The inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.British

3. (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.Examples: "We all feel it Looming, even when we're awake, out there ahead someplace, the way you come to feel a River or Creek ahead, before anything else,— sound, sky, vegetation,— may have announced it."Synonyms: beck, runAustraliaCanadaNew-ZealandUS