mud flat

American  

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.

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mud flat British  

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 Scientific  

/ 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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Etymology

Origin of mud flat

First recorded in 1805–15

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Example Sentences

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mud flat

The second car drove up onto a mud flat, and its two passengers eventually rescued.

From Reuters ● Aug. 11, 2023

But the submarine spent many years unused, docked in New London before eventually being abandoned on a mud flat near Old Saybrook.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

The indentations, pressed into the mud as people and animals walked across stretches of tidal mud flat, were baked in the sun and buried for millennia.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2022

We want a new 230,000-square-foot concourse with its own Admirals Club, and so we bulldozed hangars and an office building to make room on DCA’s precious slip of mud flat.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2021

With the tide out, a wide mud flat lay exposed.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

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