Billabong

n.

1.

In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; - sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

Noun	1.	billabong - a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently
	2.	billabong - a branch of a river running to a dead end

Australia, Commonwealth of Australia, pool, puddle