sloughs

In the low spots on the floodplain, ponds of water called sloughs pronounced “slews” are holdovers from the last flood.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

In the low spots on the floodplain, ponds of water called sloughs pronounced “slews” are holdovers from the last flood.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

The beds of those old streams may have left shallow depressions called sloughs pronounced “slews” between the ridges.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

In the low spots on the floodplain, ponds of water called sloughs pronounced “slews” are holdovers from the last flood.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

The beds of those old streams may have left shallow depressions called sloughs pronounced “slews” between the ridges.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

The beds of those old streams may have left shallow depressions called sloughs pronounced “slews” between the ridges.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

The bass have moved up from the lower bays and into the delta sloughs, which is where Canevaro spends his fishing days, in Montezuma and Broad and Suisun, to name some.

SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Brian Hoffman 2009

So now the Naval team has come in here to try to dig the sides of the ship so that the silt underneath the ship itself kind of sloughs off to the side, and they can eventually free it out.

CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2006 2006

This fever is frequently accompanied with topical inflammation, which is liable, if the arterial strength is not supported, to end in sphacelus; and as mortified parts, such as sloughs of the throat, if they adhere to living parts, soon become putrid from the warmth and moisture of their situation; these fevers have been termed putrid, and have been thought to owe their cause to what is only their consequence.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

"sloughs" or mudholes along all the tracks and across the prairie are so deep that horses and waggons are repeatedly stuck in them, and the men have to go in, often up to their waist, to help the poor animals out.

A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall