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sedgy

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Sedg´y
a.1.Overgrown with sedge.
On the gentle Severn`s sedgy bank.
- Shak.
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Adj.1.sedgy - covered with sedges (grasslike marsh plants)
plant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
grassy - abounding in grass
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sedgy
adj
(grown with sedge) → mit Riedgras bewachsen
(= resembling sedge) → riedgrasartig
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I went a-chestnutting there in the fall, on windy days, when the nuts were dropping into the water and were washed to my feet; and one day, as I crept along its sedgy shore, the fresh spray blowing in my face, I came upon the mouldering wreck of a boat, the sides gone, and hardly more than the impression of its flat bottom left amid the rushes; yet its model was sharply defined, as if it were a large decayed pad, with its veins.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
The sound came from over behind the bank, that here was steep and high, dropping from the edge of the road a half a score of feet to the sedgy verge of the river.
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All along by the sedgy banks of the rivers long lines of pages led their masters' chargers down to water, while the knights themselves lounged in gayly-dressed groups about the doors of their pavilions, or rode out, with their falcons upon their wrists and their greyhounds behind them, in quest of quail or of leveret.
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