Definition of Sleechy

1. muddy [adj SLEECHIER, SLEECHIEST] - See also: muddy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleechy

sledgehammered
sledgehammering
sledgehammers
sledgelike
sledger
sledgers
sledges
sledging
sledgings
sledlike
sleds
slee
sleech
sleeches
sleechier
sleechy (current term)
sleek
sleek down
sleek over
sleeked
sleeken
sleekened
sleekening
sleekens
sleeker
sleekers
sleekest
sleekier
sleekiest
sleeking

Literary usage of Sleechy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year (1840)
"... to reclaim certain sleechy Ground on the Shores of the said Estates, and to drain and improve the ..."

2. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"... thence stretching out to low water-mark, for several hundred yards, in a sleechy flat, composed of alluvial soil, with more or less of sand, ..."

3. Circuit Journeys by Henry Cockburn Cockburn (1888)
"The deduction arises from the dismal swamps of deep, sleechy mud, by which it is nearly surrounded at low tide. It is a dreadful composition. ..."

4. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1903)
"... reeky and " sleechy " place, looking as if there had been rubbed off, on the very walls and ceilings, the mean contemptible rascality of a hundred gaol- ..."

5. Reports of the Late John Smeaton, F.R.S., Made on Various Occasions, in the by John Smeaton (1837)
"... to avoid the sleechy bottom, and whinstone rock, by making a strong sea bank within high-water mark, and to build a wall where the shore is rocky, ..."

6. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1839)
"... and others, in the County of Wig/on and Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, to reclaim certain sleechy Ground on tho Shores of the said Estates, ..."

7. An Economical History of the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland by John Walker (1808)
"... at a low station, if bottomed • Jth clay; in sea inks and sleechy places near flood-mark ; also in bogs covered with the Sphagnum palustre, ..."

8. General View of the Agriculture of the Hebrides, Or Western Isles of Scotland by James MacDonald (1811)
"that even the aller ought to be carefully propagated. ft might be tried on sleechy ground near high flood mark, i—,) on marshy soils, where nothing else can ..."

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