underflow

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A shallow soil over moving water or underflow, such as you might expect from a creek bank, is better.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)

Some think that the station dropped into an immense cave, and others that it was caused by the underflow of the Arkansas River, which is overflowing its banks at the present time.

From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 57, December 9, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Bishop, Julia Truitt

Though powerful to check, she ne'er could change The underflow and current of their life.

From Under King Constantine by Trask, Katrina

Yasmini lay back on the cushions, drew something out from under one of them, and laughed softly, as if enjoying a deep underflow of secret information.

From Guns of the Gods by Mundy, Talbot

Its current, unripplingly smooth, but dimpled ever, and wrinkled with the whirls that mark an underflow deep and shady, bore on our bark.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various