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  • noun Plural form of tule.

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Examples

  • His entire body was covered in tules except for two small slits for him to see through.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • The reeds, called tules, are ghostly pale in winter, in summer deep poisonous-looking green, the waters thick and brown; the reed beds breaking into dingy pools, clumps of rotting willows, narrow winding water lanes and sinking paths.

    The Land of Little Rain 1903

  • The reeds, called tules, are ghostly pale in winter, in summer deep poisonous-looking green, the waters thick and brown; the reed beds breaking into dingy pools, clumps of rotting willows, narrow winding water lanes and sinking paths.

    The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901

  • Happens every time sitting in the tules waiting for the ducks decide to take a piss and half way through I got 50 mallards at 25 yards.

    Anybody have any good "oh $hit" moments when distracted while hunting? 2009

  • Happens every time sitting in the tules waiting for the ducks decide to take a piss and half way through I got 50 mallards at 25 yards.

    Anybody have any good "oh $hit" moments when distracted while hunting? 2009

  • And yet, when I laid eyes on those fishing arks lying in the water-front tules, without debate, on the instant, I put down my tiller, came in on the sheet, and headed for the shore.

    Chapter 22 2010

  • Shipyard, rounded the Solano wharf, and surged along abreast of the patch of tules and the clustering fishermen's arks where in the old days I had lived and drunk deep.

    Chapter 22 2010

  • In a cluster of fishermen's arks, moored in the tules on the water-front, dwelt a congenial crowd of drinkers and vagabonds, and I joined them.

    Chapter 12 2010

  • And when they returned next morning with reinforcements they found only the mooring-stakes of Big Alec's ark; the ark itself remained hidden for months in the fastnesses of the Suisun tules.

    The King of the Greeks 2010

  • Sacramento, in a creek called Cache Slough, the tules was full of grizzliest He used to go in an 'shoot' em.

    CHAPTER II 2010

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