Creek

Words with a similar base: Creek

'Creek'

[brook.n.01] as in: a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)

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Examples:
the creek dried up every summer

'Creek'

[creek.n.02] as in: any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma