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mud berth

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noun

Nautical.

  1. a mooring place in which a vessel rests on the bottom at low tide.

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With the assistance of the Paradox it would be a comparatively easy matter to release her from her mud berth at high water.

From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

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