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- noun Plural form of
water-meadow .
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Examples
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The other side consistsof beautiful water-meadows, thankfully a site of special scientific interest so likely to stay that way.
October 2008 Maxine 2008
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At the Cross, therefore, he turned away from the abbey, and towards the castle, down a busy and populous Southgate towards the river, and the water-meadows that still grew green in the teeth of winter.
A River So Long 2010
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The other side consistsof beautiful water-meadows, thankfully a site of special scientific interest so likely to stay that way.
A morning in Tewkesbury Maxine 2008
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The other side consistsof beautiful water-meadows, thankfully a site of special scientific interest so likely to stay that way.
A morning in Tewkesbury Maxine 2008
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He emerged from the dusk of the woodland into the full daylight of the wide water-meadows flanking that same Severn he had left behind at Shrewsbury, but here twice the width and flowing with a heavy dark power.
A River So Long 2010
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The other side consistsof beautiful water-meadows, thankfully a site of special scientific interest so likely to stay that way.
Family Maxine 2008
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We follow the Waveney along its water-meadows, and the dog never stops scanning them for anything that moves.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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We follow the Waveney along its water-meadows, and the dog never stops scanning them for anything that moves.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Hampshire water-meadows before your hairs are gray, under the wise new fishing-laws? — when Winchester apprentices shall covenant, as they did three hundred years ago, not to be made to eat salmon more than three days a week; and fresh-run fish shall be as plentiful under Salisbury spire as they are in Holly-hole at
The Water Babies 2007
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It was an eighty-cow dairy, and the troop of milkers, regular and supernumerary, were all at work; for, though the time of year was as yet but early April, the feed lay entirely in water-meadows, and the cows were ‘in full pail’.
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