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A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage. [Western U. S.]

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  1. A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage. [Western U. S.]
  2. A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. thebowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in theflood stage. [Western U. S.]