Definition of "water-meadow" [water-meadow]

• An area of grassland, besides a river, that is subject to periodic flooding (noun)

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• "But come now, let us be doing, and begin to quarter this little land as the kestrel doth the water-meadow; and leave we our armour, lest we weary us, for we shall have no need for hard strokes."
• "Well, I had a hundred poods for sale; the women mowed it on the water-meadow."
• "Everything was growing, and daily the picture was fuller and brighter till the desert became like a rank water-meadow."