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Meanings of river bottom in English

Portuguese
leito
Catalan
llera
Spanish
lecho

A channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river.

        leito
        Usage of river bottom in English
        1
        They'd recovered my 9mm from the river bottom just below the dam.
        The blue edge of midnight
        2
        Above that the stony river bottom looked only a few feet deep.
        The Secret Eleanor
        3
        It tasted like something dreadful scraped off the river bottom in summer.
        The Oracle Glass
        4
        At last the path descended to the river bottom for good.
        Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan
        5
        We were both silent now, as the road wound into the river bottom.
        Hell hath no fury
        6
        Our boots scrabbled at the sharp rocks on the river bottom.
        The Hyperion Cantos
        7
        Living groups lay peacefully about the river bottom, gambling, Torrance knew.
        The Return of Blue Pete
        8
        The danger in the river bottom could wait no longer.
        Big city girl
        9
        And in a moment later they both felt the river bottom against their knees.
        The Snowshoe Trail
        10
        Foot prints of men and horses punctured the moist silt of the river bottom.
        The Freebooters of the Wilderness
        11
        I wouldn't want to just sink down in the muck of the river bottom.
        Rain Wild Chronicles 02 - Dragon Haven
        12
        Incredulous, Fitzhugh looked at the thorn trees, the sandy river bottom, the fissured banks.
        Acts of faith
        13
        The river bottom seems to be paved with those cases.
        The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service
        14
        We came up the grade out of the river bottom.
        A touch of death
        15
        Their white horns reflect in the water like bones sunken to the river bottom.
        Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
        16
        These lie on the river bottom looking exactly like the water-worn pebbles around them.
        The Hyperion Cantos
        Translations for river bottom