1897 14 Aug. 209/2 The form of the ‘meal-marshes’ indicates that the soil has been deposited by the tides, and history shows that the process has been extraordinarily rapid.
1920 J. Vaughan xiv. 112 The flora of these dykes or ditches is..entirely different from that of the adjacent sand-dunes and shingle which separate the reclaimed marshes from the shore, or of the meal marshes which often border the sea.