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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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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
1928
Now he would head through a side-chute not twenty feet in width, to come out on a serpentine channel that bent back almost into itself before suddenly losing its identity in a lake so shallow that the wind was skimming the north side of it dry of water.