The bed or course of a stream. Cf. watergang, n. 1. Obsolete (Scottish in later use).

A course of water flowing continuously along a bed on the earth, forming a river, rivulet, or brook.

literary. The current or course of a river, etc. Now rare.

The course (of a river). Obsolete. rare.

the channel through which a river flows.

The fact or condition of flowing, flow; course; concrete a current, stream. Obsolete. rare.

The central line of the current of a stream, esp. as a boundary line.

The course of a river or other flowing body. Obsolete.

The source of a stream, river, etc.; a spring or fountain. Also, the course of a stream.

Usually in form riverrun. The course which a river shapes and follows through the landscape. Also figurative.