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billabong

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BILLABONG

BILLABONG Bil "la *bong `, n. [Native name. ]

Defn: In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

New American Oxford Dictionary

billabong

bil la bong |ˈbiləˌbôNG ˈbɪləˌbɔŋ | ▶noun Austral. a branch of a river forming a backwater or stagnant pool, made by water flowing from the main stream during a flood. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Wiradhuri bilabang (originally as the name of the Bell River, New South Wales ), from billa ‘water ’ + bang ‘channel that is dry except after rain. ’

Oxford Dictionary

billabong

billa |bong |ˈbɪləbɒŋ | ▶noun Austral. a branch of a river forming a backwater or stagnant pool, made by water flowing from the main stream during a flood. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Wiradhuri bilabang ‘channel that is dry except after rain ’.