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Meanings of deadwater in English

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Usage of deadwater in English
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We thanked heaven for stretches of deadwater between these rapids.
Travels Without a Donkey
2
We'll fix it up and paddle up this confounded deadwater!
Travels Without a Donkey
3
Above the dam were six long miles of deadwater, with frightful tangled marsh on each side.
Travels Without a Donkey
4
The logs were down the deadwater to a point where the supremacy at Skulltree dam must be settled.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
5
He cursed them with the vigor of a master of galley slaves when the bateau was frothing along the deadwater.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
6
The flowage vastly increased the extent of the deadwater, slowing the logs of the independents, whose towage methods were crude.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
7
Out on the deadwater were several floating platforms; the men called them "headworks." On the platforms were capstans.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
8
The swift water was almost passed when we embarked again and ran down the last slope into a long deadwater.
Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness
9
From her bowlder she could see a broad and calm stretch-a deadwater of which she did not know the name.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
10
The slow drag of the logs in the deadwater gave her time for pondering and she was afraid of her thoughts.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
11
Come nightfall we were still far from the end of the deadwater, so there was nothing for it but to camp.
Travels Without a Donkey
12
The river, slowed by the deadwater, was mute, though its foam streaks showed where it had crashed through the gorges above.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
13
It was that or carry you back to Deadwater a crazy man.
The Heart of Unaga
14
But he knew Hervey Garstaing better than most people at Deadwater.
The Heart of Unaga
15
He reckons he knows Deadwater, and can get through quick.
The Heart of Unaga
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Julyman had missed the latter in his absorbed interest in the return of these folk from Deadwater.
The Heart of Unaga
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