Inlet

Bay at the Gulf of Salerno, Italy

An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh,[1] that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.

  1. ^ "inlet". Dictionary.com. Ask.com. Retrieved July 6, 2014.