Ouse
/uːz
/1 (also Great Ouse) A river of eastern England, which rises in Northamptonshire and flows 257 km (160 miles) eastwards then northwards through East Anglia to the Wash near King’s Lynn.
2A river of NE England, formed at the confluence of the Ure and Swale in North Yorkshire and flowing 92 km (57 miles) south-eastwards through York to the Humber estuary.
3A river of SE England, which rises in the Weald of West Sussex and flows 48 km (30 miles) south-eastwards to the English Channel.
4 (also Little Ouse) A river of East Anglia, which forms a tributary of the Great Ouse.
Rhymes
- root and branch
- Root and Branch Bill
- root and brancher
- root and branch party
- Root and Branch Petition
- root and branch policy
- root and branch reform
- root aorist
- root-a-toot
- root ball
- root-balled
- root beer
- root beetle
- root-bound
- root bread
- root canal
- root cap
- root cause
- root cellar
- root character
- root class
- root climber
- root collar
- root crop
- root crown