English Dictionary

dead water

noun

(nautical) The eddying water under a slow-moving ship's counter, or a similar area of stationary fluid or gas in advance of a concave angle.

The lake was so still that it looked like dead water.

意味（1）

(nautical) The eddying water under a slow-moving ship's counter, or a similar area of stationary fluid or gas in advance of a concave angle.

A deadwater, that is a region occupied by stationary fluid or by gas at suitable pressure, ahead of a concave angle was shown to be possible by Villat.

意味（2）

A region in a body of moving water (or similar body of fluid in motion) where the water (fluid) is relatively stationary, or stagnant.

Some of our party went down the deadwater for a short distance in it and came back with three black ducks and one golden eye.