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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

A watercourse of a small size.

2 Bibb 354.

The word is sometimes used interchangeably with creek.

Watts v. Lindsey, 7 Wheat. (U. S.) 162, 5 L. Ed. 423.