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mud flat

noun

  1. a mud-covered, gently sloping tract of land, alternately covered and left bare by tidal waters.
  2. the muddy, nearly level bed of a dry lake.


mud flat

noun

  1. a tract of low muddy land, esp near an estuary, that is covered at high tide and exposed at low tide
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mud flat

/ mŭd /

  1. Low-lying land consisting of silt or sand that is covered at high tide and exposed at low tide.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mud flat1

First recorded in 1805–15
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Example Sentences

One camera was adapted to film out on mud flats in very difficult terrain.

High tide is the best time to paddle here, since Thomason Island is surrounded by mud flats at low tide.

Regardless of his thousand-dollar fur, he rolled, thrashed, and tumbled about in the bushes and in the mud flat by a brook.

The flat we were approaching was a mud-flat, and, from its appearance, the tide was certainly at the ebb.

We had acquired this waste of marsh and mud-flat and were keen to go and possess it.

The combination always reminds me of a rather stylish tug-boat with its towline attached to a scow on a mud-flat.

Clifford told Jack that they must "row the old tub back to Mud Flat," and both boys pluckily bent to the work.

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