merse

noun Scot

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

Word Origin for merse

Old English merse marsh

Merse

noun

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

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Examples from the Web for merse

Historical Examples of merse

A Merse mist alang the Tweed, in a harvest morning's gude indeed.
The Proverbs of Scotland
Alexander Hislop
Ainslie was a native of the Merse, his father and family living in Dunse.
Robert Burns
Principal Shairp.
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
But it was not here that Hepburn fell; that was elsewhere in the Merse.
Highways and Byways in The Border
Andrew Lang
So I took a farm which lay partly in the Lammermoors and partly in the Merse.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII
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