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dead water
noun
- water eddying beside a moving hull, especially directly astern.
- a part of a stream where there is a slack current.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dead water1
First recorded in 1555–65
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Example Sentences
I crept up the dead water under the bank, and hadn't no accidents and didn't see nobody.
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It is known that there is a small bay and dead water for some distance within its mouth.
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When the level is driven correctly, with the proper depth of water, it is said to have dead water at the forehead.
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On the ceiling a spot of light flickered with the reflection of the dead water, constantly crossed by lines of shadow.
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It was a little sheet of marshy water, surrounded by reeds, on which floated some dead water-lily leaves.
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