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Victoria :: Victoria (n.) A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front..

Billyboy :: Billyboy (n.) A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel.

Depth :: Depth (n.) The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops..

Driver :: Driver (n.) An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.

Cispadane :: Cispadane (a.) On the hither side of the river Po with reference to Rome; that is, on the south side..

Barrage :: Barrage (n.) An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile..

Checkstring :: Checkstring (n.) A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.

Matamata :: Matamata (n.) The bearded tortoise (Chelys fimbriata) of South American rivers.

Jehu :: "Jehu (n.) A coachman; a driver; especially, one who drives furiously..

Muskellunge :: Muskellunge (n.) A large American pike (Esox nobilitor) found in the Great Lakes, and other Northern lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food fish..

Shriver :: Shriver (n.) One who shrives; a confessor.

Barbel :: Barbel (n.) A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.

Inlet :: Inlet (n.) A bay or recess,as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands..

Boatable :: Boatable (a.) Navigable for boats, or small river craft..

Suraddition :: Suradanni (n.) A valuable kind of wood obtained on the shores of the Demerara River in South America, much used for timbers, rails, naves and fellies of wheels, and the like..

Stylagalmaic :: Stygian (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal. See Styx..

Pleyt :: Pleyt (n.) An old term for a river boat.

Levee :: Levee (n.) An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river..

Drawbridge :: Drawbridge (n.) A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal..

Pothole :: Pothole (n.) A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natural depression of the rock.

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