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estuary
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Barkley Cove was quite literally a backwater town, bits scattered here and there among the estuaries and reeds like an egret's nest flung by the wind.
p. 17.8

estuaries = wide parts of a river where it nears the sea and fresh & salt water mix
She even knew the way through some of the intricate channels and estuaries that wandered through a patchwork of water and land, land and water, finally to the sea.
p. 41.3
Kya tooled along, a tiny speck of a girl in a boat, turning this way and that as endless estuaries branched and braided before her.
p. 42.3
She entered a place with dark lagoons in a throat of oaks and remembered a channel on the far side that flowed to an enormous estuary.
p. 42.7

estuary = a wide part of a river where it nears the sea and fresh & salt water mix
Finally the estuary lay ahead, water stretching so far it captured the whole sky and all the clouds within it.
p. 42.8
There'd been no other people, not even distant boats, so it was a surprise when she entered the large estuary again, and there, close against the marsh grass, was a boy fishing from another battered rig.
p. 43.3
Another few minutes of creek brought a bend and the large estuary ahead, and on the other side, the boy in his boat.
p. 44.4
Finally, she turned across the estuary.
p. 44.6
As he headed across the estuary, he waved, and she followed.
p. 45.3
They could boat around in the estuaries some, explore the fens.
p. 51.2

estuaries = wide parts of a river where it nears the sea and fresh & salt water mix
Whether in estuary or creek, she scanned for that boy Tate in his boat, hoping to see him again.
p. 56.8

estuary = a wide part of a river where it nears the sea and fresh & salt water mix
Ma had painted the estuaries and sunsets in oils and watercolors so rich they seemed peeled from the earth.
p. 68.1

estuaries = wide parts of a river where it nears the sea and fresh & salt water mix
One morning, as she motored into a cord grass estuary, she saw his boat tucked in the reeds.
p. 78.7

estuary = a wide part of a river where it nears the sea and fresh & salt water mix
Then, one hand on the tiller, the other on lace, she glided across ocean and estuaries toward home.
p. 85.9

estuaries = wide parts of a river where it nears the sea and fresh & salt water mix
Sitting at the water's edge, she listened for the sound of a boat chugging down the channel or across the distant estuaries.
p. 143.7
In every other direction, slipstreams, lagoons, creeks, and estuaries wove through brilliant green grass to the sea.
p. 165.3
She cruised south to the maze of estuaries and ducked her head as she slipped into her channel, overhung with green.
p. 166.5
Here—instead of the estuaries and enormous sweeps of grass as in her marsh—clear water flowed as far as she could see through a bright and open cypress forest.
p. 176.3
As she steered them through narrow channels and glassy estuaries, he exclaimed at a remembered snag, the same as it had been, and a beaver lodge still piled in the exact spot.
p. 239.9
Several mornings later, she slipped through the estuaries in an early fog, the compass tucked in her knapsack, though she would not likely need it.
p. 248.6
At the end of a narrow estuary, she rounded a grassy bend and saw Tate squatting on a wide sandbar, dipping up water samples in little vials.
p. 278.5

estuary = a wide part of a river where it nears the sea and fresh & salt water mix
Crushing shrubs and grasses, the boat broke its own trail across the marsh and then sped across the estuary.
p. 353.3
You can't get hurt when you love someone from the other side of an estuary.
p. 354.6 *
They cruised estuaries, waded waterways, and slipped through narrow streams, collecting feathers and amoebas.
p. 359.6

estuaries = wide parts of a river where it nears the sea and fresh & salt water mix
He wrapped her in a blanket and towed her back to her lagoon in the old boat through the maze of creeks and estuaries, passing the herons and deer for the last time.
p. 364.6

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(1) (estuary)
a wide part of a river where it nears the sea and fresh & salt water mix
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, estuary can refer to an accent associated with London along the River Thames.

estuary in Where the Crawdads Sing (Edited)

estuary
in
Where the Crawdads Sing
(Edited)