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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
river bed
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By proceeding a little further, a scrambling descent to the river bed may be made.
▪ It was thus possible to assemble a bridge pier and lower it complete on to the river bed.
▪ The entrepreneur made a million dollars out of Pet Rocks-rocks that you could find in any river bed.
▪ To my astonishment I find that we use the river bed as a road.
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river bed

n. (alternative form of riverbed English)

Usage examples of "river bed".

Maybe the river bed is very shallow here, so the water has spread itself out well and made itself wide.

At first indistinctly through the now sheeting rain, but then suddenly, frighten-ingly, and all too vividly rocks could be seen, some jagged, some curved, thrusting up from the river bed.

Off to the south, it flows off a butte beside the freeway and across the road, down into the river bed of the Yellowstone, then pours up over the side of a gully to the north and west.

When the handle came away at one end the slack paid out and instead of being anchored on the river bed, the body rose to the surface but remained fastened to the weighted case.