meadow

Collocations

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ADJ.

full, green, growing, leaning, over, unpacked

VERB + MEADOW

camped, feeding, flowers, grazing, hope, like, turn, walking

MEADOW + NOUN

coppice, frogs, grain, mari, winter

PREP.

down, in, in, into, into, on, through

Definitions

noun

1

A field or pasture; a piece of land either intentionally cultivated with grass or (especially) naturally covered with grass, especially one that is intended to be mown for hay or to be grazed.

alpine meadows

But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…].

2

Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.

the salt meadows near Newark Bay

European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

verb

1

To cultivate with grass in order to produce hay.

That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller.

name

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