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rice bed 
the shallows of a lake where wild rice grows.
- 1831 About the great rice pond, and the channel leading from it to the Musk-rat lake, the lands are fertile.
- 1850 It is very long . . . with frequent marshes and productive rice-grounds.
- 1852 (1881) The extensive rice-beds on the lake had now begun to assume a golden tinge which contrasted very delightfully with the deep blue waters. . . .
- 1905 It is collected by the women, who pole their bark canoes into the rice fields when the grain is ripe, and reaching out draw over the heads, on both sides, and beat out the grain into the canoe.
- 1831 About the great rice pond, and the channel leading from it to the Musk-rat lake, the lands are fertile.