creek
    n 1: a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a
         tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer"
         [syn: brook, creek]
    2: any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee)
       formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in
       Oklahoma

Creeks \Creeks\ (kr[=e]ks), n. pl.; sing. Creek. (Ethnol.)
   A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including
   the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate
   tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and
   Alabama.
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Creek \Creek\ (kr[=e]k), n. [AS. crecca; akin to D. kreek, Icel.
   kriki crack, nook; cf. W. crig crack, crigyll ravine, creek.
   Cf. Crick, Crook.]
   1. A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into
      the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or
      of a river.
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            Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore.
                                                  --Cowper.
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            They discovered a certain creek, with a shore.
                                                  --Acts xxvii.
                                                  39.
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   2. A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a
      brook.
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            Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated creeks.
                                                  --Goldsmith.
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   3. Any turn or winding.
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            The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands.
                                                  --Shak.
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CREEK, mar. law. Creeks are of two kinds, viz. creeks of the sea and creeks 
of ports. The former sorts are such little inlets of the sea whether within 
the precinct or extent of a, port or without, which are narrow little 
passages and have shore on either side of them. The latter, Viz. breaks of 
ports, are by a kind of civil denomination such. They are such, that though 
possibly for their extent and. situation they might be ports, yet they are 
either members of or dependent upon other ports. In England it began thus: 
the king, could not conveniently have a customer and comptroller in every 
port or haven. But these custom officers were fixed at some eminent port; 
and the smaller adjacent ports became by that means creeks, or appendants. 
of that where these custom officers were placed. 1 Chit. Com. Law, 726; 
Hale's Tract. de Portibus Maris, part 2, c. 1, vol. 1, p. 46; Com. Dig. 
Navigation, C; Callis, 34. 
    2. In a more popular sense, creek signifies a small stream, less than a 
river. 12 Pick. R. 184, 

Creek -- U.S. County in Oklahoma
   Population (2000):    67367
   Housing Units (2000): 27986
   Land area (2000):     955.534846 sq. miles (2474.823784 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    14.230545 sq. miles (36.856941 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    969.765391 sq. miles (2511.680725 sq. km)
   Located within:       Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
   Location:             35.972769 N, 96.302298 W
   Headwords:
    Creek
    Creek, OK
    Creek County
    Creek County, OK