Estuary

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.

II. Estuary ·adj Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata.

III. Estuary ·noun A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.

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