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Against A River's Current Crossword Clue and Answers List

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UPSTREAM Against a river's current
UPRIVER Against the current
NIAGARA In particular, against returning to river
STICKLE A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.
INTERCEPT To obstruct or interrupt the progress of; to stop; to hinder or oppose; as, to intercept the current of a river.
ARREST To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.
ESTUARY A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.
CHANNEL The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.
FALL The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice.
RAPID The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.
BACKWATER Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.
JETTY A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
WATER WING One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.
TACHOMETER An instrument for measuring the velocity of running water in a river or canal, consisting of a wheel with inclined vanes, which is turned by th...
AVULSION The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the c...
STREAM A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a v...
PRESENTDAY Current
EXISTENT Current
ACDC Current
WATERCOURSE River
VERSUS Against
TOPICAL Current
ANTI Against
OPPOSED Against
CON Against
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