Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The channel in which a river flows.
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- adjective Attributive form of
river bed , noun.
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Examples
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I can rest up and look over my notes while you're hunting your ancient river-bed.
CHAPTER 15 2010
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Near by was the smoke-blackened ruin of the farm-house, fired by the Russians when they retreated from the river-bed.
The Yellow Peril 2010
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Dressed in shorts, shirts and Akubra hats, they pose under a river red gum admiring a work of art they have assembled in the sand: a giant clitoris composed of river-bed rocks wrapped in pink cotton, an Antipodean riposte to the priapic Cerne Abbas Giant.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Dressed in shorts, shirts and Akubra hats, they pose under a river red gum admiring a work of art they have assembled in the sand: a giant clitoris composed of river-bed rocks wrapped in pink cotton, an Antipodean riposte to the priapic Cerne Abbas Giant.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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They were originally painted in bright colors, but even now, in their light brown clay (unique in China, taken from a river-bed) they seem alive, monumental and powerful.
Madeleine M. Kunin: China Journal, May 16, 2009: Terra-Cotta Soldiers, Islam, and Pollution 2009
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He wished he was a fossil responding to geological time, creaking, calcifying, hardening, going deeper and deeper into a rock-face or river-bed, metamorphosing over thousands of years from flesh and blood and marrow into stone; better to be a fossil than human, on the cusp of some painful new development almost every day.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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He wished he was a fossil responding to geological time, creaking, calcifying, hardening, going deeper and deeper into a rock-face or river-bed, metamorphosing over thousands of years from flesh and blood and marrow into stone; better to be a fossil than human, on the cusp of some painful new development almost every day.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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He wished he was a fossil responding to geological time, creaking, calcifying, hardening, going deeper and deeper into a rock-face or river-bed, metamorphosing over thousands of years from flesh and blood and marrow into stone; better to be a fossil than human, on the cusp of some painful new development almost every day.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Other river-bed species include Trianthema pentandra, a valuable fodder plant, Silene kilianii, Lupinus pilosus and Convolvulus fatmensis.
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Damming a river section not only transforms that section into a large pond, but also reduces the temperature and oxygen content, and increases river-bed erosion and water turbidity downriver.
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