Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A muddy low-lying strip of ground by the shore, or an island, usually submerged more or less completely by the rise of the tide.
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Examples
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One day, on the mud-flat side of the Rock Wall, an Italian fishing boat hauled up on the sand dredged from the channel.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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They think the hindrance a mud-flat at first but soon hear the sound of oarlocks, then two men in a boat shoot under their stern: foreign looking fellows with knitted tam-o'-shanters, bright woolen sashes, sea-boots, earrings, long knives — "For all the world they were like pirates stepped out of the pages of romance."
“And must I. . .who am weary, travel always your trail until I die?” 2008
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A whitethroat flies out over the salt marsh from its grassed nesting bank on the most recent seawall, singing its dry ratchet song over the slippery green ooze; a redshank agitated by a marsh harrier towers inland over emerald wheat fields calling its bleak mud-flat alarm.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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The flower, the ruined house behind us, the two wispy-haired children staring at us from a mud-flat across the river, everything receded.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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The flower, the ruined house behind us, the two wispy-haired children staring at us from a mud-flat across the river, everything receded.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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The flower, the ruined house behind us, the two wispy-haired children staring at us from a mud-flat across the river, everything receded.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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We ran at speed over the smooth flint or mud-flat, letting the strong car throb itself fully: but luck was hostile.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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Then we crossed to the northern lobe of the mud-flat, a fit landing-ground for the aeroplanes which Siddons was adding to our flying column.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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He and I and Lewis, the only unburdened ones, went on in front across one huge mud-flat after another till just before sunset we were at the bottom of Wadi Rumm.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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In the morning we delayed to eat again, having only six hours of march before us; and then pushed across the mud-flat to a plain of firm limestone rag, carpeted with brown, weather-blunted flint.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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