Billabong

2 definitions found

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.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  billabong
       n 1: a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows
            intermittently
       2: a branch of a river running to a dead end