waterfoot
A Scottish and Northern English geographical term for the point where a river meets the sea or a larger body of water—the 'foot' of the watercourse.
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A Scottish and Northern English geographical term for the point where a river meets the sea or a larger body of water—the 'foot' of the watercourse. It appears in numerous Scottish place names (e.g. Waterfoot in Ayrshire). Equivalent to the English 'river mouth' or the Gaelic 'inbhir' found in names like Inverness.
The fishing boats anchored at the waterfoot, waiting for the tide to let them cross the bar.
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(Scotland) An estuary at the mouth of a river.
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