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Definition of Oxbow lake
1. Noun. A crescent-shaped lake (often temporary) that is formed when a meander of a river is cut off from the main channel.
Definition of Oxbow lake
1. Noun. A crescent-shaped lake formed near a flat-valleyed river when one of its meanders becomes pinched off and isolated. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxbow Lake
Literary usage of Oxbow lake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dodge's Advanced Geography by Richard Elwood Dodge (1906)
"A portion of the Mississippi River, showing meanders and an oxbow lake. Population in
Old Valleys. Old river valleys, in countries where the climate is ..."
2. Michigan Poets and Poetry: With Portraits and Biographies by Warren Wayne Lamport (1904)
"When Gabriel blows his trumpet, I calculate to wake To glory, or to somethin',
right here by oxbow lake! The Same Old Town FLOYD D. RAZE LIKE a lonesome ..."
3. Scarborough's Official Tour Book by New York State Automobile Association (1918)
"0.5 oxbow lake on left. 1.5 -*t Curve right, leaving lake. A.5 Curve. ...
oxbow lake at right 5.4 Take left fork, leaving macadam. (Macadam around curve to ..."
4. Manual of Physical Geography by Frederick Valentine Emerson (1909)
"Does the resulting oxbow lake show the same shaped bottom as the meanders in ...
What is the length of the oxbow lake ? How much did the river shorten its ..."
5. Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student by William Herbert Hobbs (1912)
"An oxbow lake in -the flood plain of a river. to present to the stream a series
of concave scallops separated by sharp intermediate salients of cuspate form ..."
6. General Index of the Laws of the State of New York: Prepared and Published ...by New York (State) by New York (State) (1859)
"From Johnstown to oxbow lake, 1810. From South Bay to Lake George inlet, 1810.
From oxbow lake to Grass river, 1810. From the falls at the outlet of Lake ..."
7. The Elements of Geography by Rollin D. Salisbury, Harlan Harland Barrows, Walter Sheldon Tower (1912)
"If it contains standing water, it becomes the site of an oxbow lake or bayou ...
Had they succeeded, Vicksburg would have been left on an oxbow lake at some ..."
8. The Elements of Geography by Rollin D. Salisbury, Harlan Harland Barrows, Walter Sheldon Tower (1912)
"If it contains standing water, it becomes the site of an oxbow lake or bayou ...
Had they succeeded, Vicksburg would have been left on an oxbow lake at some ..."
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