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mud-flat†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the level, low-lying land bordering a stream; interval.
See: flat(def. 1)
Quotations
1922
The only breaks in the endless panorama of cut-banks, mud-flats, willows, and grass were occasional little inlets, gay with aquatic flowers.
1959
Built on mud flats in the Mackenzie River delta, Aklavik was a quagmire in summer, had no water supply, no airfield or much possibility of building one.