river flat(s)†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the level, low-lying land bordering a stream; interval.

Quotations

1908

Descending a very long and crooked ravine, we reached the river flat at last. . . .

1933

. . . S.S.Saskatchewan, a river steamboat greatly addicted to sticking on river flats. . . .