Wiktionary
n. 1 The bed of a stream 2 The dry channel that was formerly the path of a stream
WordNet
n. a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream [syn: streambed]
Usage examples of "creek bed".
The grade had been getting steadily steeper as we climbed up from the creek bed and we came face to face with a shoulder of the valley side.
At the least, the creek would be up, scouring the whole creek bed.
The good thing so far is that we know where the fire is coming from and that it's following the dry creek bed.
He had lost his pack and his gun in the river, and as soon as the river sank to being a normal stream again, they would all be lying in the creek bed, in plain sight.
Ethel Steed interrupted by wanting to know where she could find someone to drive four pilings into the creek bed, and her husband asked, Whatever for?
Because we had hit the creek bed going full speed and knocked all the water out of the channel, and about a hundred gallons splashed over into the wagon and nearly washed Cousin Bearfield out.
We climbed up and up along the winding creek bed until my lungs pulled at the hot air and felt crackly clear down to their bottoms.
Again the river clutched at her, leaving her roll half-completed when he landed on her, water flowing into nose and open mouth as heaviness crushed her into the stones of the creek bed.
But the man was reaching back, pulling another man out of the creek bed, and now more were doing the same, the men gathering now on the far side of the creek, and out in front the officers began to form the line again.
But the creek bed sloped sharply there, and the shoreward end of the boathouse rested on the top of the bank under which the tunnel emerged.
By the time they'd traversed the three-quarters of a mile to the creek bed any water they took with them in their plastic canteens would be cold.
Across the creek bed, the fiat brush-land spread out, and they could see the Norris ranch houses and corrals a mile or so away.
The water was coming through a thicket that once sat high above the creek bed.
They began to see mica and quartz crystals in the creek bed and at noon on the second day they passed the last stunted tree.
The sand, gravel and rocks of the creek bed seemed to be composed exclusively of the bright mineral.