merse
/məːs/(also mersk) Scottish
noun
Chiefly regional ( Dumfries and Galloway ). Flat, alluvial, often marshy land beside a river, estuary, or the sea. Now chiefly: specifically partially reclaimed land bordering the Solway Firth.
- the Merse: the fertile lowland region of south-eastern Scotland between the Lammermuir Hills and the Tweed (formerly in the county of Berwickshire; since 1975 in the Berwickshire district of Borders region)..
Origin
Middle English. Variant of marsh; β. forms show regular loss of -k in final -sk.
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