"water pocket" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: water pockets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} water pocket (plural water pockets)
  1. (US, chiefly Western US) A waterhole in the bed of an intermittent stream, especially the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage. Tags: US, Western
    Sense id: en-water_pocket-en-noun-8lRTZyCm Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Western US English

Inflected forms

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