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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
reclaimed marshland.
See: dike(d) land(s)
Quotations
1821
. . . a few acres of Mr. Gosling's best marsh passed into the hands of Saunders Scantocreesh, a hard-faced, hard-working Scotchman. . . .
1889
In the foreground were fields of yellowing grain, and stretching to the landward horizon was the vast expanse of the green Tantramar and Missiguash marshes, not less, it is said, than 50,000 fertile acres.
1957
In Westmoreland and Cumberland counties, too, the dyked land was marsh. . . .