bottom land

noun

, Physical Geography.

1. bottom ( def 4 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of bottom land¹

An Americanism dating back to 1720–30

Example Sentences

While he was gone, MacRae and I leaned over in our saddles and scanned closely the grass-carpeted bottom-land.

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Her escort pointed to the print of a mule's shoe in the soft soil of the low bottom land.

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Jest about the middle, between the two hills, a crick meandered through the bottom land.

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Much of the bottom land about the fort is inclined to be gravelly, but produces well.

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The creek makes a big bend, and all the bottom land has grown up with timber, some as big as a man's body.

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