Crossword clues for riverbed
riverbed
Wiktionary
n. The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the bottom earthen part of a river, not including the riverbanks.
WordNet
n. a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river [syn: river bottom]
Wikipedia
Riverbed may refer to:
- Stream bed, the channel bottom of a stream or river or creek
- Wadi, a dry riverbed that contains water only during times of heavy rain
- Riverbed Technology, an American technology company
- Riverbeds (band), a Canadian post-rock band
Usage examples of "riverbed".
Sand had filled the cracks in his face, giving the look of a dried-up riverbed.
He threaded among willows and sycamores and wild blackberry vines in the riverbed, patted the trunks of live oak and scrub oak, madrone, laurel, toyon.
For eight days the legions labored, driving piles into the riverbed, setting up the pylons to take the roadway, cushioning them from the swift and pounding current with huge, angled buttresses on the upstream side to divide the waters and take their force off the bridge itself.
By the time Cat arrived at the edge of the river outside Okitsu, the two porters were wading the swift, shallow current as it meandered through the boulders and across the shingle of the riverbed.
The sky Anunnaki set the Igigi to digging out the rivers Igigi - gods (mostly of the heavens) They are given the task of digging riverbeds by the Anunnaki.
As he swam he tried to judge the feel of the current on his body, its turnings, its deflections, as it was shaped by the contour of the banks, the irregularities of the riverbed.
It had plazas and defunct fountains, Moorish arches and mission churches, a big riverbed with a tiny stream in the bottom of it, fall tourists with cameras, a spectacular view of the Candelero Range.
It divided the main street, which, like most of the side streets he could see, was paved with cobblestones shifted here from some distant riverbed.
We drove southwest across Fort Wyvern, through Dead Town, past the warehouses where I had confronted the kidnapper, switching off the headlights as we reached the Santa Rosita, down the access ramp along the levee wall, onto the dry riverbed, obeying not a single stop sign along the way, ignoring every posted speed limit, with a loaded shotgun in a moving vehicle, a concealed weapon in my shoulder holster even though I possessed no license to carry, a cooler of beer between my feet, trespassing in flagrant violation of the federal government's Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act, while holding numerous politically incorrect attitudes, of which a few might well be against the law.
Most of the enemy troops had been forced to charge the dam up the riverbed of the Euphrates.
We saw dry lakes and riverbeds, deep canyons, and towering mountains, and for a while it was hard for me to tell what it all meant.
This creates a navigational inconvenience, since the riverbed is too steep and too narrow to lumber across it without risk of tipping prow-first into an attitude reminiscent of a duck diving for its dinner.
Dad had put his mug down when the immense and empty silence around them was broken by the gear change of the truck nosing down to cross the dry riverbed.
These fossil riverbeds, like Nirgal Vallis, Warrego Valles, Protva Valles, Patana Valles, or Oltis Vallis, were narrow sinuous canyons, true riverine canyons rather than grabens or fossae.
There were even guns among them with no locks at all that were fired by jamming a cigarillo against the vent in the barrel, sending the gunstones from the riverbed with which they were loaded whissing through the air on flights of their own eccentric selection like the paths of meteorites.