2. Noun. A narrow part of a navigable waterway. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Narrows
1. narrow [v] - See also: narrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Narrows
Literary usage of Narrows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventure Guide Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"Between Petersburg and Wrangell is the single most difficult navigational stretch
in all of Southeast: the Wrangell narrows. The Alaska Marine Highway's M/V ..."
2. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"Unlike falls, narrows are not most conspicuous in the youth of the stream, ...
Falls are common in horizontal or nearly horizontal beds, but narrows,are ..."
3. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist, Wisconsin Geological Survey (1877)
"In this regard the rock is quite different from that of the narrows section. ...
Further west again, and until we reach the Upper narrows of the ..."
4. Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes by Christopher Vecsey (1983)
"Grassy narrows Ojibwas Between 1962 and 1970 the Dryden Paper Company in Ontario
dumped an estimated 20000 pounds of mercury into the Wabigoon River, ..."
5. Geology and Agriculture by Louisiana Geological Survey (1902)
"THE narrows Manner of formation.—Twenty miles above Orange the river enters ...
There can be little doubt but that the narrows were formed, as suggested by ..."
6. Geology and Agriculture by Louisiana Geological Survey (1902)
"THE narrows Manner of formation.—Twenty miles above Orange the river enters ...
There can be little doubt but that the narrows were formed, as suggested by ..."
7. The Statutes at Large of South Carolina by South Carolina, Thomas Cooper, David James McCord (1840)
"AN ACT FOR CLEARING, CLEANSING AND MAKING NAVIGABLE BLACK J^Q RIVER, AND FOR
KEEPING TIIE SAME OPEN AND NAVIGABLE, FROM THE narrows, INCLUSIVE, ..."
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