creek

A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.

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.

The inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.

A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.

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.

Any turn or winding.

One of a Native American tribe from the Southeastern United States, also known as the Muscogee.

The Muskogean language of the Creek tribe.

A surname.