CREEK BED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does creek bed mean? 

• CREEK BED (noun)
  The noun CREEK BED has 1 sense:

1. a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream

  Familiarity information: CREEK BED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREEK BED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

creek bed; streambed

Hypernyms ("creek bed" is a kind of...):

bed; bottom (a depression forming the ground under a body of water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creek bed"):

dry wash; wash (the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon))

 Context examples 

But to prevent them from getting behind him, he was forced back, down past the pool and into the creek bed, till he brought up against a high gravel bank.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He made it clear to Buck that he was to come, and they ran side by side through the sombre twilight, straight up the creek bed, into the gorge from which it issued, and across the bleak divide where it took its rise.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)