Usually means: Water trapping ships with friction.
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  1. dead water: Merriam-Webster
  2. dead water: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dead-water, dead water: Wordnik
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  8. Dead Water: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (dead water)

noun:  (nautical) The eddying water under a slow-moving ship's counter, or a similar area of stationary fluid or gas in advance of a concave angle, which can occur when there is strong vertical density stratification (due to salinity or temperature or both), and can cause ships to become hard to control.
noun:  A region in a body of moving water (or similar body of fluid in motion) where the water (fluid) is relatively stationary, or stagnant.

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