stream scour

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• scour — [skauə US skaur] v [T] [Sense: 1; Date: 1400 1500; Origin: Probably from a Scandinavian language.] [Sense: 2 3; Date: 1100 1200; Origin: Probably from Middle Dutch schuren, from Old French escurer, from Late Latin excurare to clean off , from… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Scour — Scour, n. 1. Diarrh[oe]a or dysentery among cattle. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of scouring. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 3. A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a fall. If you catch the two sole denizens [trout] of a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• scour|way — «SKOWR WAY», noun. a channel eroded by a stream, especially by a former glacial stream …   Useful english dictionary

• Stream bed — The bed of this stream is armored with rocks, some very rounded (having had a longer life in the stream) and some not. A stream bed is the channel bottom of a stream, river or creek; the physical confine of the normal water flow. The lateral… …   Wikipedia

• Scour — For the physical process, see . Scour Inc. was a search engine for multimedia on the Internet, and provided Scour Exchange, an early peer to peer file exchange service. Scour was founded by five students (Vince Busam, Michael Todd, Dan Rodriques …   Wikipedia

• scour — verb (T) 1 to search very carefully and thoroughly through an area, a document, etc: A team of detectives is scouring the countryside. 2 also scour out to clean something very thoroughly by rubbing it with a rough material: The pans really needed …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• stream terrace —    One, or a series of flat topped landforms in a stream valley that flank and are parallel to the stream channel, originally formed by a previous stream level, and representing remnants of an abandoned flood plain, stream bed, or valley floor… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• scour and fill —    [ geomorphology ]    A process of alternate excavation and refilling of a channel, as by a stream or the tides; especially such a process occurring in time of flood, when the discharge and velocity of an aggrading stream are suddenly increased …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• scour —    [ geomorphology ]    The powerful and concentrated clearing and digging action of flowing air, water, or ice, especially the downward erosion by stream water in sweeping away mud and silt on the outside curve of a bend, or during the time of a …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• scour channel —    A large, groove like erosional feature in a stream bed swept (scoured) by running water, generally leaving a gravel bottom.    GG …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• river — river1 riverless, adj. riverlike, adj. /riv euhr/, n. 1. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels. 2. a similar stream of something other than water: a… …   Universalium