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1759 tr. M. Adanson Voy. Senegal 45 Before I could get thither, I was obliged to cross two marigots: these are rivulets with which the whole country is intersected.

1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele I. 35 Passing up a marigot or branch channel, worn down by porters' feet to a deep wet ditch.

1894 Q. Rev. July 273 The French troops..crossed 172 ‘marigots’, with steep banks and full of water.

1939 E. D. Laborde tr. E. de Martonne Shorter Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) viii. 119 Big rivers form lakes in their flood plains. Such lakes would be found in disused parts of the bed (e.g., an ox-bow or mort-lake), or hollows enclosed by natural dykes built up by alluvium on the banks of the main channel of the stream. They are known as marigots on the Niger, bayoum on the Mississippi, and mayeh on the Nile.

1988 New Scientist 10 Mar. 63/1 As the mares and marigots—the waterholes and creeks—dry up, villagers mould the sandy mud in wooden frames to make bricks.