carse
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of carse
1325–75; Middle English cars, kerss, equivalent to ker marsh (< Old Norse kjarr marshy grove; compare Swedish kärr marsh) + -ss, north variant of -ish 1
Example Sentences
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Above, the banks were too high and steep to be passed; while below, where ran the Bannock through the carse, the swamps prevented passage.
From In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Four miles west of the town the fertile limestone carse swells into the shady hills, clad largely with pine, that form the long glacis of the Alleghanies.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various
Lord Clifford was therefore despatched with 800 picked men-at-arms to cross the Bannock beyond the left wing of the Scottish army, to make their way across the carse, and so to reach Stirling.
From In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
We were within the regions watered by the Nile, and the harvests resembled those of the carse of Gowrie.
From Round the World by Carnegie, Andrew
Let them look out on yon carse, where they saw me refuse that crown, offered by themselves, which my accuser alleges I would yet obtain by their blood.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane
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