Obs. [f. CREEK sb.1]

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  1.  intr. To run (up) as a creek or tidal inlet; to form a creek.

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1538.  Leland, Itin., III. 27. Trure Creeke is next, and goith up a 2 miles creking up from the principal streme, and creketh within halfe a mile of Trure. Ibid., III. 34. From Lantiant Pille to Blougham Pille or Creke nere a mile, it crekith up but a litle.

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  2.  To bend, turn, wind. Hence Creeking vbl. sb., a bend, turn.

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1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 312. Arun … with sundry creekings … holdeth on his course to the sea. Ibid., 451 The salt water so creeketh about it [a town], that it almost insulateth it.

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