bed of a river
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From 312 U.S. 592 - United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad · 1941Most cited · 422 citing opinions
that portion of its soil which is alternately covered and left bare, as there may be an increase or diminution in the supply of water, and which is adequate to contain it at its average and mean stage during the entire year, without reference to the extraordinary freshets of the winter or spring, or the extreme droughts of the summer or autumn