A section of a river where the banks are much farther apart, and the water widens out for some distance: [Asked in early Questionnaires only]
| NR | 62 |
| LAKE | 10 |
| WIDE PLACE IN THE RIVER | 3 |
| BROAD STREAM | 1 |
| FORD | 1 |
| NH | 1 |
| OVERFLOW | 1 |
| OVERFLOW OF THE BANKS | 1 |
| RIFFLE | 1 |
| SLOUGHS | 1 |
| SPREAD-OUT | 1 |
| WIDE PART OF RIVER | 1 |
| WIDE SECTION | 1 |
| WIDE SPOT | 1 |
| WIDE SPOT IN THE RIVER | 1 |
| WIDENING | 1 |
| WIDER PART | 1 |
DARE Data Summary by Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.