alkali flat

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noun
  1. a level area, as a dry lake bed, in which evaporation has concentrated alkali minerals, as sodium sulfates and carbonates.: Compare salt flat.

Origin of alkali flat

1
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

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How to use alkali flat in a sentence

  • As it lay through an uninhabited alkali flat, the right of way could be easily obtained.

  • Each "drive" brought together on some alkali flat thousands of the restless, milling, bawling cattle.

    The Killer | Stewart Edward White
  • Trail dust sure does make a man's throat dryer'n an alkali flat!

    Ride Proud, Rebel! | Andre Alice Norton
  • Ride down the barranca two hundred yards and you'll come to an alkali flat.

    The Killer | Stewart Edward White
  • The rear of the saloon was partitioned off into a "Ladies' Room," whose door opened on the alkali flat behind.

British Dictionary definitions for alkali flat

alkali flat

noun
  1. an arid plain encrusted with alkaline salts derived from the streams draining into it

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