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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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water, often brackish and alkaline, taken from a pothole (def. 3a).
Quotations
1920
If you once drink slough water you know you will never like any other.
1948
You shoot ducks in a slough and may also unfortunately drink slough water.
1965
Since none of the Plains Indians had seen a sea, they weren't too sure what was being looked for and in response to descriptions such as "water which no man drinketh," led the explorers to more slough water than sea water.