Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The line of high tide along a beach or shore; also, the drift which collects there.
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He rides up the centre valleys, ever and anon mounting a grassy hill to look seaward, reaches the West-end bar, speculates upon perchance a broken spar, an empty bottle, or a cask of beef struggling in the land-wash -- now fords the shallow lake, looking well for his land-range, to escape the hole where Baker was drowned; and coming on the breeding-ground of the countless birds, his pony's hoof with a reckless smash goes crunching through a dozen eggs or callow young.
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens
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