carse

[kahrs, kers]

carse

[kahrs, kers]
noun Scot.
bottom land.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English cars, kerss, equivalent to ker marsh (< Old Norse kjarr marshy grove; compare Swedish kärr marsh) + -ss, north variant of -ish1
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To carse

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Carse is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
Collins
World English Dictionary
carse (kɑːs, Scottish kærs)
 
n
(Scot) a riverside area of flat fertile alluvium
 
[C14: of uncertain origin; perhaps from a plural form of carr]

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT