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slough water West

• water, often brackish and alkaline, taken from a pothole (def. 3a).

  See also: pothole (def. 3a)  slough  (def. 1)  

  • 1920  If you once drink slough water you know you will never like any other.
  • 1948  You shoot ducks in a slough and may also unfortunately drink slough water.
  • 1965  Since none of the Plains Indians had seen a sea, they weren't too sure what was being looked for and in response to descriptions such as "water which no man drinketh," led the explorers to more slough water than sea water.