A large body of water, contained in a depression of the earth’s surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area, webster. See Jones v. Lee, 77 Mich. 35, 43 N. W. 855; Ne-pee-nauk Club v. wilson, 96 wis. 290, 71 N. W. 061
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
