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n.
a narrow, meandering, sluggish side-channel of a river, usually shallow and often coming to a dead end.
See: snye(def. 2a)
Quotations
1903
He . . . crossed a back channel filled with rough ice to another island, gained a third island, curved back to the main river, and in desperation started to cross it.
1933
Late in the morning we pulled out for Mud Lake, only six miles away by a shortcut called the back channel.