Merse

Quick meaning: Merse is a noun meaning Alluvial, often marshy land by the side of a river, estuary or sea.

Meaning

Alluvial, often marshy land by the side of a river, estuary or sea.

Example Sentences

Owing probably to the channel lying obliquely to those mud flats, the flood rushes up the river with a bore, the front wave of which may be several feet high. As a result, the loose mud is churned up by every tide and the water that inundates the merse always contains much mud in suspension. Consequently the merse must be continually increasing in height. That the siltings may be rapid in favourable circumstances is shown near Kirkconnell where mooring bollards are seen […]

Word Forms

• merses

Related Words

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