DCHP-3

floating swamp

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a detached mass of swamp vegetation floating on the surface of the water.

Quotations

1829
We are led to think that the enormous quantities of drift wood, floating swamps . . . soils of all kinds, &c. hurried into Lake Ontario annually, would conduce towards the formation of islands and shoals in the same. . . .