DCHP-1 Online
side-chute Northwest 
n. a narrow, meandering, sluggish side-channel of a river, usually shallow and often coming to a dead end.
See also: snye (def. 2a)
- 1928 Now he would head through a side-chute not twenty feet in width, to come out on a serpentine channel that bent back almost into itself before suddenly losing its identity in a lake so shallow that the wind was skimming the north side of it dry of water.
- 1928 Now he would head through a side-chute not twenty feet in width, to come out on a serpentine channel that bent back almost into itself before suddenly losing its identity in a lake so shallow that the wind was skimming the north side of it dry of water.