river bottomn.

1662 T. W. Thorny-Abbey 13 in Gratiæ Theatrales Here, take this key, and by the Postern bear it to the pit Digg'd in the river bottom.

1797 Times 11 Sept. 3/3 The lower bucket of the wheel is two feet distance from the river bottom.

1882 Cent. Mag. July 348/1 One of the great ‘pot-holes’ sometimes found in a river bottom.

1937 Life 26 July 82/2 Cottages were put up, grounds laid out on land dredged up out of the river bottom, and the Old Club reached its heyday.

1970 Mariner's Mirror 56 234 Flatners were often held at bow and stern by iron-pointed stakes called geds driven into the river bottom.

2000 R. Sterling World Food: Spain 31 For centuries people thought that anguilas..appeared spontaneously from the muck and mire of the river bottom.

1752 C. Gist Jrnl. 20 Feb. (1893) 75 Then continued our course..the last 5 [miles] thro the river bottoms, which were a mile wide and very rich.

1793 G. Imlay Topogr. Descr. W. Territory N. Amer. (ed. 2) 411 At the edge of the wood lands, and before your descend [sic] into the river bottoms, one of the most charming prospects..displays itself.

1843 F. Marryat Narr. Trav. M. Violet II. xi. 227 Between the upland and the little ridge..there was a wide river bottom. [Note]. River bottom is a space, sometimes of many many miles in width, on the side of the river, running parallel with it.

1895 J. Winsor Mississippi Basin 26 The luxury of the river bottoms and their timber margins.

1931 ‘Grey Owl’ Men of Last Frontier 101 Being accustomed to hunting on the plains, where the game is in pockets, in gullys, river bottoms, or in bluffs of poplar or willows [etc.].

1980 Hunting Ann. 1981 29/3 We didn't have a tree stand so I picked a little grassy knoll that allowed me a fairly good overview of the riverbottom.

2001 A. M. Jones Last Year's River Epil. 321 In the riverbottoms, the cottonwoods are budding into tiny, translucent leaf.