2. Verb. (third-person singular of meander) ¹
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Definition of Meanders
1. meander [v] - See also: meander
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meanders
Literary usage of Meanders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"meanders, or balanced swings in river courses, occur from source to mouth, ...
The embayments or scallops produced in their upper course by meanders that ..."
2. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"The meanders are thus entrenched. Where a stream has entrenched meanders, ...
Plate XIV shows the entrenched meanders of the Conodoguinet River in ..."
3. Topographic Instructions of the United States Geological Survey by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1913)
"meanders. Where land lines cross rivers, the right-angle width of which is three
chains and upward, lakes, bayous, and deep ponds of 25 acres area and ..."
4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"... velocity, and load of mud, as to destroy for a time the oyster and fish
industries of that locality.1 Flood-plain meanders. Cut-and-fill. ..."
5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"... velocity, and load of mud, as to destroy for a time the oyster and fish
industries of that locality.1 Flood-plain meanders. Cut-and-fill. ..."
6. Biennial report by North Dakota Geological Survey (1908)
"The meanders are particularly well developed in the vicinity of Yule and between
that place and the southern boundary of Billings county, though they are by ..."
7. Dodge's Advanced Geography by Richard Elwood Dodge (1906)
"Sometimes the meanders become so close together that finally the land separating
them is ... The meanders are then left as lakes in the shape of horseshoes, ..."
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