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n. (water-meadow English)
Usage examples of "water-meadows".
He looked up from the wide water-meadows, eastwards across the silvery pools the Severn had left in every dimple after the spring floods, across the broad main stream of the river with its faint, drifting wreaths of mist, to the black hog-back of the Long Mountain, indented in half a dozen places along its vast, forested flank by the seamed valleys where brooks flowed down to join the Severn.
Severn was hardly higher than its summer level yet, they splashed through it and threaded the silver pools in the water-meadows beyond.
Good grazing, water-meadows and woodland, and it’s been well tended, seemingly, for it’s valued higher now than ten years since.
Sometimes there below they caught glimpses of the full, soft-sliding Trent, and of water-meadows dotted with small cattle.