marshlandn.adj.
/ˈmɑːʃland/, /ˈmɑːʃlənd/, U.S. /ˈmɑrʃˌlænd/ A. n.
Land consisting of marsh, marshy country; (in some places) a specific local area of marsh.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun]
marsheOE
fenc888
sladec893
moorOE
mossOE
marshlandlOE
lay-fena1225
lay-mirea1225
moor-fenc1275
flosha1300
strother?a1300
marish1327
carrc1330
waterlanda1382
gaseync1400
quaba1425
paludec1425
mersec1440
sumpa1450
palus?1473
wash1483
morass1489
oozea1500
bog?a1513
danka1522
fell1538
soga1552
Camarine1576
gog1583
swale1584
sink1594
haga1600
mere1609
flata1616
swamp1624
pocosin1634
frogland1651
slash1652
poldera1669
savannah1671
pond-land1686
red bog1686
swang1691
slack1719
flowa1740
wetland1743
purgatory1760
curragh1780
squall1784
marais1793
vlei1793
muskeg1806
bog-pit1820
prairie1820
fenhood1834
pakihi1851
terai1852
sponge1856
takyr1864
boglet1869
sinkhole1885
grimpen1902
sphagnum bog1911
blanket bog1939
string bog1959
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1098 Þurh mycele renas þe ealles geares ne ablunnon, forneah ælc tilð on mersc lande forferde.
1350 Patent Roll 23 Edward III pt. 1 m. 29v Fossatum vocatum Pokedyk in Merssheland in com. Norf.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 21044 A Maryssh, or elles a merssh lond..off ffylthes ryht habounde.
1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 11 The brokyn Dyke other wyse called Old feld Dyke by Marsheland, in the Ile of Elye.
1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars i. xliii. 15 Such as in Fens and Marshlands use to trade, The doubtfull foards and passages to try.
1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 257 Malicious breaking of the Dikes and Bankes in Marshland.
1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 803 The Marshland of Norfolk.
1767 Sir R. Colville in R. Dossie Mem. Agric. (1768) I. 412 Marsh land, of a light, silly, hungry soil.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 95 The febrile miasma issuing from marsh-lands.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. ix. 58 They had been sufficiently fortunate as to..learn the nature of ‘mash land’.
1901 Spectator 17 Aug. 215/2 On the other side of the creek a flat expanse of marshland extends for a mile or two.
1954 M. Beresford Lost Villages Eng. i. 31 The flat level of the reclaimed marshlands to the south.
1989 Scots Mag. Mar. 649 Another arduous job was that of salvaging a Liberator which had crashed in soft marshland near the top of Beinn Nuis, Isle of Arran.
B. adj. (attributive).
Situated or occurring in marshland; characterized by marshland.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] > found in or produced by
fenny1543
marish1543
fennish1574
marshland1574
marshy1595
marishy1607
fenny-seated1631
palustrian1787
paludous1803
swampy1803
palustrine1824
paludicolous1857
paludose1866
web-footed1867
paludicole1872
palustral1879
paludicoline1890
ombrotrophic1962
1574 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1986) (modernized text) III. 318 To every poor household in Hadstock..1 peck of ‘mascheland miscelin’.
1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxi. 24 Of all the Marshland Iles, I Ely am the Queene.
1820 T. Hodgskin Trav. N. Germany II. v. 120 The great objects of the marsh land farmers is to fatten cattle, and grow corn and seeds.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 220 The marshland haze.
1893 D. Jordan Forest Tithes 195 One marshland farm I often visited.
1909 Daily Chron. 23 Feb. 5/8 The..shortage of rain is having its..effect on the springs and wells of Norfolk..and Cambridgeshire, especially in the marshland district.
1950 J. W. Day (title) Marshland adventure.
1990 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 21 Nov. 22/4 A young London solicitor..is sent to a small marshland market town to finalise the estate of an old woman.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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