0 (in the southern US) an area of slowly moving water at the side of the main river
1 (in the southern US) an area of slowly moving or still water connected to a river or lake
About five in the afternoon we gathered on the bank of the bayou.
In these forests there are numerous bayous that form a net-work converting the land into a series of islands.
Tall palms sometimes grew along the bayous, for the country is half tropic.
On the morning of the 13th, a foraging detachment set out along both banks of the bayou.
The survivors fell back across the bayou on a corduroy bridge.
The settlers there ran a church, a school, a merchandise store and the post office, which were all located on the bayou.
