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

Four miles west of the town the fertile limestone carse swells into the shady hills, clad largely with pine, that form the long glacis of the Alleghanies.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various

Let them look out on yon carse, where they saw me refuse that crown, offered by themselves, which my accuser alleges I would yet obtain by their blood.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

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

Lord Clifford was therefore despatched with 800 picked men-at-arms to cross the Bannock beyond the left wing of the Scottish army, to make their way across the carse, and so to reach Stirling.

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