mud flat

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noun

a mud-covered, gently sloping tract of land, alternately covered and left bare by tidal waters.

the muddy, nearly level bed of a dry lake.

RELATED WORDS

flat, tideland, wetlands

Nearby words

Origin of mud flat

First recorded in 1805–15

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Examples from the Web for mud flat

The tide was going out, and soon a mud-flat would lie between them and the home shore.
Cricket at the Seashore|Elizabeth Westyn Timlow
Probably Sir James did not know that the real Constellation was fast in the mud-flat.
Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812|James Barnes
The stretch before him resembled nothing so much as mud-flat with the tide out.
Plotting in Pirate Seas|Francis Rolt-Wheeler
There was a heavy log lying on the mud-flat of the river waiting to be shaped into a mast for a boat.
The Hungry Stones And Other Stories|Rabindranath Tagore

And he jumped off the bank and landed lightly on his feet on the mud-flat, and started on again.
The Tale of Peter Mink|Arthur Scott Bailey

British Dictionary definitions for mud flat

mud flat

noun

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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