DCHP-3

muskeg water

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the brownish water that characterizes streams fed by or flowing through muskeg (def. 2).

See: muskeg(def. 2)

Quotations

1936
There, at the mouth of a tiny trickle of muskeg water that registered but 58 against 72 for the water in the Cedar proper, we found a fisherman's paradise.
1944
". . . one has to be careful 'bout drinkin' from every Dick-and-Harry bit o' water that comes along on the trail. But even muskeg water is all right when boiled."