hay slough†

Prairies

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a low-lying damp depression where wild hay grows abundantly.

Quotations

1925

He could not go to the hay-slough alone this morning.

1955

In the hollow beyond the telephone post is a "hay slough" surrounded by a ring of willow bushes.