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.

Words nearby mud flat

mud crab, mud crack, mud dauber, mud eel, mud fever, mud flat, mud gecko, mud hen, mud map, mud pie, mud pot

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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