carse

American  

[kahrs, kers] / kɑrs, kɛrs /

noun

Scot.

1. bottom land.

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carse British  

/ kærs, kɑːs /

noun

1. a riverside area of flat fertile alluvium

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Etymology

Origin of carse

1325–75; Middle English cars, kerss, equivalent to ker marsh (< Old Norse kjarr marshy grove; compare Swedish kärr marsh) + -ss, north variant of -ish ¹

Example Sentences

Above, the banks were too high and steep to be passed; while below, where ran the Bannock through the carse, the swamps prevented passage.

From In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

On re-emerging from the wood, they met Sir John Graham, who had just arrived with five hundred fugitives from Lord Bute's slaughtered division, whom he had rallied on the carse.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

One reason is, that the carse of Stirling has been upheaved some twenty feet, and thereby more or less drained, since the time of the Romans. 

From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Kingsley, Charles

But he had scarcely passed the minister’s carse, when he met with Mrs. Glibbans returning. 

From The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family by Galt, John

We were within the regions watered by the Nile, and the harvests resembled those of the carse of Gowrie.

From Round the World by Carnegie, Andrew