Anabranch

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Anabranch \An"a*branch\, n. [Anastomosing + branch.]
     A branch of a river that re["e]nters, or anastomoses with,
     the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses
     itself in sandy soil. [Australia]
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Such branches of a river as after separation reunite, I
           would term anastomosing branches; or, if a word might
           be coined, anabranches, and the islands they form
           branch islands.                          --Col.
                                                    Jackson.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Billabong \Bil"la*bong`\, n. [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 back-waters forming
     stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a
     source.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]