| 单词 | sunk lands |
| 释义 | > as lemmassunk lands sunk lands n. (with the) a wetland area in eastern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri; cf. sunk country n. ΚΠ 1847 W. Pelham Let. 22 Oct. in U.S. Senate Executive Documents 30th Congr., 1st Sess. III. 114 The district of country..includes a large portion of the district called ‘Sunk Lands’, and is..very difficult to survey; the surveyors only being able to operate during the low stage of the waters. 1896 O. P. Read Arkansas Planter iv. 44 Slow, now, my lady, queen of the sunk lands. 1916 L. W. Stephenson & A. F. Crider Geol. & Ground Waters Northeastern Arkansas 166 The ‘sunk lands’ are gently undulating, the partly wooded, swampy depressions. 2000 Arkansas Hist. Q. 59 135 Bison found some protection in the thick canebrakes and sunk lands of the St. Francis basin in eastern Arkansas. < as lemmas |
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