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Matching Practice: Worksheet


Match each term to it's definition.





- husbanding - - meads - - shoals - - wold - - eyot - - whatever-it-was - - plashing - - gunwale - - writhen - - shingle -




Twisted; contorted.

Careful or thrifty management.

Denoting an unnamed person, thing, quality, etc.; chiefly used as a perfunctory designation of anything a speaker is reluctant or unable to describe specifically.

The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side.

A meadow.

Small, water-worn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on the seashore.

An open, elevated tract of country: esp. applied in plural, to districts in parts of England (as Yorkshire and Lincolnshire), resembling the downs of the southern counties.

An islet; an ait (a small island in a river).

Of little depth, as water; shallow; also, a sand-bank or sand-bar in the bed of a body of water, esp. one which shows at low water.

To splash, or move with a splash, in water or the like, as oars, fish, etc.