A flow of water; a stream, a watercourse. English regional (chiefly south-western) in later use. Cf. rean, n., rhine, n.3

A small stream, esp. one flowing through flat or marshy ground, and often dry in summer; a ditch or channel through which such a stream flows; = sike…

A small stream, esp. one flowing into a river. Obsolete. rare.

A small watercourse. Cf. siket, n.

A watercourse, natural or artificial; in later use, a small brook or channel. In 14–15th centuries often used to render Latin stillicidium (shower)…

A small watercourse or sike.

A small stream of water, a rill or streamlet, esp. one flowing through flat or marshy ground, and often dry in summer; a ditch or channel through…

A channel for water, esp. one which provides drainage for a coal mine. Now historical.

A stream, channel, ditch.

A watercourse; any channel for water; a stream.

A watercourse.

A stream, a watercourse.

A hollow or valley resembling a trough; the bed or channel of a stream, or the depressed tract through which it flows; spec. in Geology a…

A narrow passage. A channel or run of water, a branch of a stream; a sound, strait.

A channel or bed (of a stream); spec. an artificial channel leading water to or from a point where its energy is utilized, as in a mill or a mining…

A watercourse; an aqueduct, channel; an open drain in fenny districts. Now local.

A conduit or drain for liquid. Obsolete except as merged with sense 5.

Extended rhetorically to any watercourse or channel, including those of natural formation.

A trench, channel, watercourse (natural or artificial).

A drain or watercourse in fen districts.

Extended to any watercourse or channel, including those of natural formation. On the Humber, a navigable channel, as Goole Dike, Doncaster Dike…

A little stream; a runnel. Cf. run, n.2 24b.

An open ditch or brook.

A watercourse, river-bed, or ravine; a drain or channel for rain- or floodwater. Cf. khor, n.

A channel (natural or artificial) in which water flows; a watercourse.

Applied to a natural watercourse which drains a tract of country.

A noun lade, with a sense ‘channel, watercourse, mouth of a river’, has been evolved by etymologists from place-names in which the last element is…

W. Country dialect and Newfoundland. A furrow or groove; a ditch, a small watercourse; a (steep) narrow passageway; also, a valley.

Physical Geography. = regime, n. 3a.

A stream course, a ravine (?). (Also draft)

A roughly horizontal passage introduced into a mine for the purpose of access or drainage. Also in extended use; spec. a watercourse, esp. one that…

A channel, ditch, or gully, usually one formed by heavy rain and dry during the greater part of the year.

The line in the bottom of a valley in which the slopes of the two sides meet, and which forms a natural watercourse; also the line following the…

The bed or channel in which a stream runs. Now rare.