May 30, 2006, 20:58
KallehPirate Stream
I am trying to workshop Judah's limerick on "pirate stream," but this is the only definition I can find of it:
Pirate stream: A stream that captures the headwaters of another stream.
Here is the limerick:
A stream gently flowed in this bed
Till a
pirate stream cut off its head,
By steering a course
That captured its source;
In a waterless grave now, it's dead.
Author's Note: Geologists can use some surprisingly colorful language.
I've not heard the phrase before. Does this definition make sense?
May 31, 2006, 02:17
BobHaleGoogle only gets 69 hits for the phrase but they do seem to bear out the definition.
One question though, isn't this word a very long way outside the current range (like about thirty years away)?
That's what I wondered, Bob! Is Judah perhaps defining "bed"?
May 31, 2006, 08:00
BobHaleApparently another term for it is beheaded stream and that's the one being used as the defined word.
May 31, 2006, 20:22
KallehYes, it was for "beheaded stream." Sorry, I should have been more clear.
What is meant, do you think, by the waterless grave? Does that fit? It just doesn't make sense to me, and I wanted to know if I am missing something before I comment there.
June 02, 2006, 14:53
tinmanquote:
Originally posted by Kalleh:
What is meant, do you think, by the waterless grave?
The stream was "alive" when it had water in it. A pirate stream "cut off its head" and "captured its source," leaving it dead and waterless.
Tinman
June 02, 2006, 20:16
KallehWell, thank you, Tinman. The problem was that I hadn't completely understood the term "pirate stream."