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mud flat

noun

a mud-covered, gently sloping tract of land, alternately covered and left bare by tidal waters.
the muddy, nearly level bed of a dry lake.

mud flat

a tract of low muddy land, esp near an estuary, that is covered at high tide and exposed at low tide

mud flat

/ mŭd /

Low-lying land consisting of silt or sand that is covered at high tide and exposed at low tide.

First recorded in 1805–15

Regardless of his thousand-dollar fur, he rolled, thrashed, and tumbled about in the bushes and in the mud flat by a brook.

The flat we were approaching was a mud-flat, and, from its appearance, the tide was certainly at the ebb.

We had acquired this waste of marsh and mud-flat and were keen to go and possess it.

The combination always reminds me of a rather stylish tug-boat with its towline attached to a scow on a mud-flat.

Clifford told Jack that they must "row the old tub back to Mud Flat," and both boys pluckily bent to the work.

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