I dont really know but it starts with an M
An S-Shaped river is known as a sinuous.
meander
a meander
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The proper name for a turn in a river is a meander.
Meander or bend
It is near the great bend in the Arkansas river.
The Battle of Horseshoe Bend was in Alabama, though it was a battle in name only as the Creeks were pretty much slaughtered. The name refers to a horseshoe-shaped bend in the Tallapoosa River which the Creeks had fortified, but their defenses were easily breached by Jackson's US forces in 1814.
Hurn is an English name. It's a variant of the name Hearn. This name was given to someone who lived by a bend in a river. Hearn is derived from the Old English Hyrne.
The Tunxis Indians did and it means at the bend of the little river
tennessee river
A "bend" is a river is where it makes a significant change in its direction. Big Bend NP is located in an area where the Rio Grande changes its direction from southeast to northeast -- ie, a "big" bend in the river.
It got its name from a bend in the Rio Grande.
Part of the harness for an oxen is a u-shaped piece of metal, which is fastened to a wooden halter, as the initial point of attachment of the loading system. This is called an oxbow.The name is also given to the u-shaped bend in a river as it aggrades across a flattish landscape. Commonly, the oxbow is part of a complex series of them, and they are considered an attractive landscape. A set of oxbows may be called a scroll plain.So the medium creating them is river erosion on a plainland.
It is built on a 'great bend' in the Arkansas River. See the map at the related link below.