intervale

American  

[in-ter-veyl] / ˈɪn tərˌveɪl /

noun

Chiefly New England.

1. a low-lying tract of land along a river.

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Etymology

Origin of intervale

1640–50; variant of interval; by folk etymology taken as inter- + vale ( def. )

Example Sentences

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intervale

We returned across the wooded intervale, seeing no game but a partridge, which Willis shot, and reached the ford and the cabins at about four o'clock in the afternoon.

From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

Three miles from town we passed the race-course, situated in a delightful intervale.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt

At some points there is scant room for the river road between the high bluff and the water; at others a wedge of fertile intervale pushes back the steep bank.

From Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. by Pickard, Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas)

Over intervale and upland Sounds the robin's interlude From his tree-top spire at evening Where no unbeliefs intrude.

From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss

This day of the black snake was an eventful day for the little kings of the intervale.

From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir