DCHP-2
muskeg swamp DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 n.
an organic bog which is a brown to black mixture of water and living and dead vegetation often covered with a carpet of sphagnum or other mosses and often of considerable depth.
See also: muskeg (def. 1)
- c1963 The hauling roads, many of which are muskeg swamps during the summer months, become frozen in late fall and are immediately prepared for the winter haul. The main, all-weather roads are built to meet logging operation standards only.
- 1895 Now for the first time we made the acquaintance of the muskeg swamp, and from this time forward hardly a day passed to the end of the journey when we did not curse this particular abomination.
- 1897 (1898) They and the other Indians agree that the whole country on the James Bay slope, after leaving the height of land a short distance, is timbered, except a narrow belt of muskeg swamps some distance below the Long Portage Falls on the Missanabie.
- 1928 Canada's boom cut its swath across two-thirds of a continent, overflowing into the mountain valleys of the Rockies and the muskeg swamps of the Athabaska.
2 n.
terrain made up of or characterized by such bogs.
See also: muskeg (def. 2)
- 1957 As we left the railroad village of Ilford, the coniferous forests of Northern Manitoba gradually disappeared and the land began to take on a barren look--low scrub, muskeg swamp and rounded weatherworn rock.
- 1958 I took the trail with him on that wild trip . . . through such a country as you never saw of mountains, streams and miry muskeg swamp. . . .
- c1963 The hauling roads, many of which are muskeg swamps during the summer months, become frozen in late fall and are immediately prepared for the winter haul. The main, all-weather roads are built to meet logging operation standards only.