Associations to the word «Distributary»

Wiktionary

DISTRIBUTARY, noun. (hydrology) A branch of a river delta; a channel that distributes a river's waters into the sea, as with the Atchafalaya River of the Mississippi.

Dictionary definition

DISTRIBUTARY, noun. A branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats