estuary

• At the estuary are a number of small islets well suited for the emplacement of powerful guns. —  A History of the United States
• In Indian and Colonial times this estuary was the part of the river that counted most for men, because of the bounty that came from its waters, the fitness of its shores for farming, and its navigability for boats and ships in a region where land travel was laborious and whose colonists depended on commerce with a European homeland. —  The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior
• There is, however, one true river of some size, the Hlaing, which rises near Prome, flows southwards and meets the Pegu river and the Pazundaung creek near Rangoon, and thus forms the estuary which is known as the Rangoon river and constitutes the harbour of Rangoon. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• An occasional Malay is met acting as a police officer, but it is evident that such work does not appeal to the native of the Straits Settlements On our return to the hotel we crossed a large estuary which is spanned by several bridges. —  The Critic in the Orient
• At a much greater distance--for the estuary is here very wide--the line of the English coast was seen on the verge of the water, resembling one of those fog-banks on which mariners are said to gaze, uncertain whether it be land or atmospherical delusion We shall be undisturbed for some hours,' said Mr. Geddes; 'they will not come down upon us: till the state of the tide permits them to destroy the tide-nets. —  Redgauntlet

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