floating bog

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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or muskeg a layer of muskeg floating on the surface of the water near the shores of a river or lake.

See: muskeg(def. 3)

Quotations

1946

They got well into some bushes while I, acting as guide, went gingerly out on the floating bog at the lake inlet to look. . . .

1961

Floating muskeg surrounded the lake, so we moved onto higher ground and built a corduroy road back down to the lake.

1963

. . . the approach to the lake itself .. . was simply a floating bog, so soft that a tussock stepped upon sank a foot or more. . . .