cut-off

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Passages cut by the great Western rivers, particularly the Mississippi, affording new channels, and thus forming islands. These cut-offs are constantly made.


When the Mississippi, in making its cut-offs, is ploughing its way through the virgin soil, there float upon the top of this destroying tide, thousands of trees that covered the land and lined its curving banks.--Thorpe's Backwoods, p.172.

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