DCHP-3

drowned lands

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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low-lying areas liable to flooding.

Quotations

1790-1796
[The Sawmills are Drowned with the freshet. There is not much Lumber on hand.]
1883
. . . where the ground is low-lying . . . the country on both sides is completely submerged, forming what are called "lagoons" in the Southern States, and in our backwoods "drowned lands."