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back-waters
n. (back-water English)
Usage examples of "back-waters".
Potato peels and chicken feathers were bobbing in the river’s back-waters, and he caught whiffs of yeast on the breeze.
Sometimes they were just babbling, each to his own, but many times they came together in dim choruses that swelled, clashed, merged, and collapsed, like waves of a tide probing and seeking its way through the mazy back-waters of an estuary.
He kept to the banks, poking with a stick among the sandy bays and caves and little back-waters, myself always close on his heels.