intervale
[ in-ter-veyl ]
nounChiefly New England.
a low-lying tract of land along a river.
Origin of intervale
1- Also interval.
Words Nearby intervale
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How to use intervale in a sentence
As far down as Mayence or Mentz (55 miles), the low banks and broad intervale continue, and there is little worthy of notice.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyAnd in company with three other extremely rich men he arranged, once a year, a Field Day for the town of intervale.
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler WarnerAll through the spring and early summer months, boys were in training for miles around, getting ready for intervale's Field Day.
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler WarnerHowe's division was next in line, where the Rebel batteries had full sweep of the broad intervale.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.The river rolled gently along with plenty of depth, and beyond it was another beach, and then the swelling intervale.
Bert Lloyd's Boyhood | J. McDonald Oxley
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