[talk-au] How to tag reaches (segments of a waterway)?

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:54:53 +1000
Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> Have we got some other word for the smaller part of the waterway?

Just checking my ancient brain synapses with some help from online
dictionaries
reach [intransitive verb] 5.  Nautical To sail with the wind abeam.
reach [noun] 6.  Nautical The tack of a sailing vessel with the wind
abeam.
	 7. The stretch of water visible between bends in a river or
channel.

taken from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/reach

so a river in English can consist of bends and reaches