Carse

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  • n. Low, fertile land; a river valley.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Low, fertile land; a river valley.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An obsolete form of cress.
  • n. In Scotland, a stretch of fertile alluvial land along the side of a stream; the low-lying part of a valley that is watered by a river, as distinguished from the higher grounds: as, the carse of Gowrie; the carse of Stirling. Carses are now regarded by geologists as raised beaches or terraces.
  • n. A dry measure formerly used in some parts of France.
  • Word Usage
    "Hence every early community stands, to start with, near its own cultivable territory, usually a broad river-valley, an alluvial plain, a 'carse' or lowland, for uplands as yet were incapable of tillage by the primitive agriculture of those early epochs."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    farce    marse    parse    sparse