"creek" in the noun sense

1. brook, creek

a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river

"the creek dried up every summer"

2. Creek

any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

Princeton University "About WordNet®."
WordNet®. Princeton University. 2010.

View WordNet® License