A piece of soft, miry, or muddy ground; esp. a place or hole in a road or way filled with wet mud or mire and impassable by heavy vehicles…

A piece of unenclosed waste ground; (now usually, esp. in British usage) uncultivated ground covered with heather; a heath. Also: a tract of ground…

A stream flowing through boggy land; a muddy ditch or hole; a bog. Also, see quot. 1781.

An area of swampy ground; a boggy place, esp. one in which a person may be engulfed or become stuck fast; (gen.) swampy ground, bog.

A boggy or swampy place; a small pool.

plural ? Damp places. Obsolete.

A muddy place; a mud-hole. Obsolete. rare.

A pool, a marshy place. Obsolete exc. local.

A miry or muddy place; a slough.

(See later quots. and cf. slunk, n.)

A muddy place; mud.

The formation of a rill or rills.

A muddy place; a puddle. Now dialect.

An area of boggy ground. Obsolete.

A muddy or marshy place; a miry hollow.

A soft or boggy hollow; a morass.

A hole containing mud or in which mud collects, esp. one which forms a defect or obstacle in a road; spec. a hot mud spring.

a natural hole with a swampy bottom.

dialect. A wet, marshy piece of ground; a place in a field, etc., where water oozes up.

A wet spot or patch of ground.

Liquid mud caused by continuous traffic or treading with the feet; also dirty footmarks.

Originally and chiefly Irish English. Frequently in plural. Originally: a stretch of flat, muddy or marshy land beside the sea, an estuary, etc…

local. (See quot. 1839.)

dialect. A piece of marshy, swampy ground.

A muddy place or event.

a soft spot or piece of ground into which one may sink while riding after hounds.

U.S. colloquial. A mud-hole.

A patch of wet or muddy ground in which one ‘sticks’. colloquial.

Equivalent to sweltered venom (see sweltered, adj. 1), or confused with welter, n.1 = slough.

The trampling of land while it is in a soggy condition; the fact of becoming poachy. Also concrete (poetic): a patch of mud.