Definition of "fens" []

• Plural form of fen. (noun)

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• "The use of winter storage reservoirs in the fens is a win for everyone: The surplus drainage water is pumped from a dyke into the reservoir during the winter months, reducing the amount that has to be pumped out to sea by the drainage boards, and is then stored for use in the drier times of water shortage."
• "Those British writers didn't italicise "fens" because I didn't understand what a fen was."
• "Hunter uses the word "fens" in another lyric, which seems to lend support to the identification of "Fennario" as a district of marshy lands; namely, in the "Ivory Wheels/Rosewood Track" lyric of the Terrapin suite:"