Geest

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A type of slightly raised landscape, with sandy and gravelly soils, that occurs in the plains of Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In northern Germany, high, dry, and sandy or gravelly land: opposed to marschland.
  • n. In various older geological treatises published in England and the United States, diluvium, coarse drift, or gravel.
  • Word Usage
    ""geest," and finally in low German, "yest"; and that word you know is the word our Saxon forefathers used, and is almost the same as the word which is commonly employed in this country to denote the common ferment of which I have been speaking."