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- noun Plural form of
fen .
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Examples
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The use of winter storage reservoirs in the fens is a win for everyone: The surplus drainage water is pumped from a dyke into the reservoir during the winter months, reducing the amount that has to be pumped out to sea by the drainage boards, and is then stored for use in the drier times of water shortage.
FWi - All News 2010
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The use of winter storage reservoirs in the fens is a win for everyone: The surplus drainage water is pumped from a dyke into the reservoir during the winter months, reducing the amount that has to be pumped out to sea by the drainage boards, and is then stored for use in the drier times of water shortage.
FWi - All News 2010
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Those British writers didn't italicise "fens" because I didn't understand what a fen was.
Archive 2008-08-01 Glenda Larke 2008
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Those British writers didn't italicise "fens" because I didn't understand what a fen was.
Alien words in our prose Glenda Larke 2008
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Hunter uses the word "fens" in another lyric, which seems to lend support to the identification of "Fennario" as a district of marshy lands; namely, in the "Ivory Wheels/Rosewood Track" lyric of the Terrapin suite:
The Annotated "Dire Wolf" Robert Hunter 1978
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(If Cambridge had not been founded in the fens back in the 1300s, would you think of putting a university there?)
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In some such mood I came along a lean, pale road south of the fens, and found myself in a large, quiet, and seemingly forgotten village.
February 11th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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Then he was struggling to cover his costs with the returns offered by a world global market saturated with the subsidized output of farmers from as far afield as the Midwest plains of the U.S., the fens of Lincolnshire in the U.K. and the giant paddocks of Western Australia.
Food for Thought David Elliot 2011
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I had already corrected 'rock o' the fens 'to the correct' reek o 'the fens' although Rock o 'the Fens is a good fantasy name!
Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win Lou Anders 2009
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(If Cambridge had not been founded in the fens back in the 1300s, would you think of putting a university there?) 1200s.
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