sloughland

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English

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Etymology

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From slough +‎ land.

Noun

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sloughland (plural sloughlands)

  1. Land marked by sloughs; swampland.
    • 1908, Canada. Topographical Survey, Report, page 264:
      ... an area of continuous sloughland, all more or less flooded. The land is quite useless until some system of drainage on a large scale lets the water off the surface into either Carrot river or Sipanok channel, when the soil would probably be found to be []