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marsh lands
N.S.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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the fertile sea meadows protected by a dike (def. 1).
Quotations
1889
The Acadians reclaimed the fertile marsh lands from the sweep of the tides, by constructing dikes with much labour by means of wattled stakes and earthen embankements.
1957
Officially, then, the eight thousand five hundred acres of dyked lands around Minas Basin are marsh lands. . . .