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Dead water

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(Naut.) the eddy water closing in under a ship's stern when sailing.

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I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
In the dead water, just inside its mouth, lay a tangled mass of tree trunks.
His iron claw made a circle of dead water round him, from which they fled like affrighted fishes.
 
 
 
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