Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently;
2.
a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Billabong \Bil"la*bong`\, n. [Native name.]
In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; --
sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the
word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has
also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming
stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a
source.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
billabong
n 1: a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows
intermittently
2: a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main
stream only when the water level is high