See slough in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:",
"text": "\"That comed - as you call it - of being arrant asses,\" retorted the doctor, \"and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter IV, in Shrewsbury:",
"text": "Notwithstanding this discrepancy, however, and though, taught by experience, I hastened to agree with her that the secret of her birth was not likely to be discovered in a moment, nor by so simple a process as the journey to Norwich, which I had been going to suggest, it was natural that we should often revert to the subject, and to her pretensions, and the hardship of her lot: and my curiosity and questions giving a fillip to her memory, scarcely a day passed but she recovered some new detail from the past; as at one time a service of gold-plate which she perfectly remembered she had seen on her father's sideboard; and at another time an accident that had befell her in her childhood, through her father's coach and six horses being overturned in a slough.",
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"A muddy or marshy area."
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"(British) A muddy or marshy area."
],
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]
},
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{
"text": "We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.",
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{
"ref": "1886, Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, volume 2:",
"text": "At that time I had no staff officer who could be trusted with that duty. In the woods, at a short distance below the clearing, I found a depression, dry at the time, but which at high water became a slough or bayou.",
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"swamp"
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[
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"lake"
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[
"system",
"system"
],
[
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],
[
"waterway",
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],
[
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"(Eastern US) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees."
],
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"Eastern",
"US"
]
},
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"categories": [
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"Western US English"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The Sacramento River Delta contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide."
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"(Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide."
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"English terms with usage examples"
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"text": "John is in a slough.",
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"A state of depression."
],
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"depression",
"depression"
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"English terms with usage examples"
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{
"text": "Potholes or sloughs formed by a glacier’s retreat from the central plains of North America, are now known to be some of the world’s most productive ecosystems.",
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{
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"US"
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{
"enpr": "slo͞o",
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"US"
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"US"
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},
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"US"
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"word": "slue"
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{
"word": "slew"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "močurište",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"word": "мочурище"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tresavište",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
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"neuter"
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{
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "močál"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bažina"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"word": "suo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"word": "räme"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lamazal"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bulleiro"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trollo"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "braña"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "seascann"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lama"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palus"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "myr"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "gjørmehull"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "batak",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"word": "باتاق"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "hılaş",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"word": "خلاش"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "bagno"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "atoleiro"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lamaçal"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pântano"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "muddy or marshy area",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "clàbar"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "blato",
"sense": "type of swamp or shallow lake system",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "блато"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rǎkav",
"sense": "secondary channel of a river delta",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ръкав"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "secondary channel of a river delta",
"word": "sivuhaara"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "uninie",
"sense": "state of depression",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "униние"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "state of depression",
"word": "masennus"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podavlennostʹ",
"sense": "state of depression",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"singular"
],
"word": "подавленность"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "state of depression",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "agüite"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Maxwell Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota",
"slough (hydrology)"
],
"word": "slough"
}
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