Noun: carr
Sample Sentences
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The marsh lands or ‘carrs’ that covered the low-lying floor of the vale could not be cultivated and the poorly drained flanks of the vale would be best used as pasture. [2007, Kevin Leahy, The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Lindsey, Tempus, published 2008, page 16:]
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The old tales told of these noble animals sighted padding across clodded fields or circling shrinking copses. Stalking the choking carrs. [2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 155:]
Nouns inflected like carr
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English kerr and Middle English carr meaning meadow, field or grassland of a low lying variety; possibly related to Old Norse kjarr. Compare Swedish kärr, Icelandic kjarr. See: Old Norse Nouns '
kjarr', Swedish Nouns '
kärr', Icelandic Nouns '
kjarr'.