water meadow

noun

1. a meadow kept fertile by flooding.

water meadow

noun

1. a meadow that remains fertile by being periodically flooded by a stream

Word History and Origins

Origin of water meadow¹

First recorded in 1725–35

Example Sentences

Then, leading the talk away from anything so intimate to him, "Ah, that delicious stretch of water-meadow!"

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Again with a dull thunder of hoofs the horses gallop over the soft water-meadow.

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The Baron listened, and then said he must go and see that a new hatch was put in the brook to irrigate the water-meadow.

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There is a water meadow with which I am familiar, where large numbers resort annually for the purpose of procreation.

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A tenant near Blarney, in County Cork, was seen to be ploughing up a valuable water meadow.

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