Definition of "river-bottom" []

• The alluvial land along the margin of a river. See bottom, 3. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The main task of the POWs in this camp was to pick rocks and stones from a vast area of old dried river-bottom land near the camp so that the land could be made ready to plant sugar cane."
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• "Another half-minute in the river-bottom and they'd have had me-even now, as I put my head down and the Arab went like a rat up a drainpipe, it was going to be a damned close thing."