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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A projecting mass or lump of mud specially characteristic of the delta of the Mississippi, and produced by the local bulging of underlying soft beds because of overloading in the neighborhood, or perhaps also by the generation of confined gases.
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But to this pair every mile of these fickle waters, channel and mud-lump, snug lagoon, open sea and hidden bar, each and all, were known as the woods are known to a hunter, and, as he drew her hand closer to his side, she turned across the track of the moon and bounded into the wide south.
Strong Hearts George Washington Cable 1884
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