mud
/mʌd/ noun B1- A traditional Dutch unit of dry measure of variable size, frequently about 3 bushels.
- A traditional Dutch unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a mud of seed.
- A kind of box traditionally used in the Netherlands for measuring muds.
Plural muds
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“We must certainly get to the Emerald City if we can,” the Scarecrow continued, and he pushed so hard on his long pole that it stuck fast in the mud at the bottom of the river.
If it were suicide, then we have to believe that this man began by taking off his wedding ring and concealing it; that he then came down here in his dressing gown, trampled mud into a corner behind the curtain in order to give the idea someone had waited for him, opened the window, put blood on the—”
Curious, because, so far as one can trace any footmark in this mud-stained corner, one would say it was a more shapely sole.
Are they blood stains, or mud stains, or rust stains, or fruit stains, or what are they?
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