river

Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.

By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.

1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.

2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:

A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.

a river of blood

Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.

He called instantly but was too ashamed to show until the river.

2017, Nathan Schwiethale, Ace High: Mastering Low Stakes Poker Cash Games, page 70:

(typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

→ Finnish: river (“river (in poker)”)

Sranan Tongo: liba

نهر أبيض

typography: visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class III § 348. River

From Middle English ryver, from Anglo-Norman rivere, from Early Medieval Latin rīpāria (“littoral, riverbank”), from Latin rīpārius (“of a riverbank”), from Latin rīpa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to scratch, tear, cut”). Unrelated to Latin rīvus (“stream”) (whence rival, derive). Doublet of riviera and rivière. Displaced native Old English ēa.

der

lake [⇒ thesaurus] "stream of running water"


river

Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.

(poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.

en-verb

river (third-person singular simple present rivers, present participle rivering, simple past and past participle rivered)

rivers (present singular third-person)
rivering (participle present)
rivered (participle past)
rivered (past)