Etymology

binnekill

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Today it means: The backwater portion of a stream or remnant of an old stream bed. Full definition →

Dutch binnen
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The story

  1. Dutch · derived frombinnen“inside”
  2. English todaybinnekill

From Dutch binnen (“inside”) + kil (“creek, kill”).

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