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gleam(medicine)
gleam(2)(dictionary)
gleam(1)(dictionary)
gleam 1, verb(dictionary)
Churchill River(encyclopedia)
Churchill, Sir Winston(dictionary)
Churchill Corp.(finance)
Churchill (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Churchill Falls(encyclopedia)

Churchill Falls (sh) and gleam 2, noun (oh)


Churchill Falls (sh)




formerly Grand Falls

Part of a series of cataracts and rapids on the Churchill River, Newfoundland, Canada.

The falls drop 245 ft (75 m) and are 200 ft (60 m) wide. They power one of Canada's largest hydroelectric stations. Visited in 1839 by John McLean of the Hudson's Bay Company, the cataracts were called Grand Falls until 1965, when both falls and river were renamed for Winston Churchill, who died that year.


gleam 2, noun (oh)



2 n [C]
[Language: Old English; Origin: glAm]
a small pale light, especially one that shines for a short time
-synonym glimmer glimmer gleam of
::They saw a sudden gleam of light.
the brightness of something that shines
-synonym glint glint gleam of
::the gleam of gold and diamonds
an emotion or expression that appears for a moment on someone's face
gleam of
::She saw a gleam of amusement in his eyes.
::Rose looked at me with a furious gleam in her eyes.
sth is a gleam in sb's eye
used to say that something is being planned or thought about, but does not yet exist
::In those days, CD-ROMs were still just a gleam in the eye of some young engineer.