merse

/ (mɜːs, Scottish mɛrs) /

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noun Scot

low level ground by a river or shore, often alluvial and fertile

a marsh

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Word Origin for merse

Old English merse marsh

Words nearby merse

merry men, Merry Mount, merrythought, merry widow, MERS, merse, Merseburg, Mersenne, Mersenne number, Mersey, Mersey beat

British Dictionary definitions for merse (2 of 2)

Merse

/ (mɜːs, Scottish mɛrs) /

noun

the Merse a fertile lowland area of SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders, north of the Tweed

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

How to use merse in a sentence

Even in the fertile Merse there were parishes of which the minister received only from four to eight pounds sterling in cash.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay
“I see him plainer than ever I did in the Merse,” said my master, looking up where the sun was bright in the west.
A Monk of Fife|Andrew Lang
That seaside resort is a mushroom beside Berwick of the Merse, standing on its dignity of many sieges.
Bonnie Scotland|A.R. Hope Moncrieff
But it was not here that Hepburn fell; that was elsewhere in the Merse.
Highways and Byways in The Border|Andrew Lang

To the Merse and to Allanbank there came word that the land was returning to his home.
Highways and Byways in The Border|Andrew Lang