carse

Hence every early community stands, to start with, near its own cultivable territory, usually a broad river-valley, an alluvial plain, a 'carse' or lowland, for uplands as yet were incapable of tillage by the primitive agriculture of those early epochs.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

What was the special cause of the fen itself? why did not the great lowland become a fertile 'carse' of firm alluvial soil, like that of

Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847

May lighthouse, where the Firth expands into the German Ocean; and away to the west, over all the carse of Stirling, you can see the first snows upon Ben Ledi.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

Four miles west of the town the fertile limestone _carse_ swells into the shady hills, clad largely with pine, that form the long glacis of the Alleghanies.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

Benchonzie, the limit on the north, where the highest elevation is reached at 3048 feet, and the wood-crowned Turleum, 1291 feet high, where "wind and water sheers," the southern boundary, down to the well-cultivated and nearly level carse, which lies all the way between

Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883

But the Earn slips between this seeming obstacle and the spurs of the Ochils, making such haste as it can through carse-like land to join the lordly Tay hard by Abernethy -- the ancient capital of the Southern Picts -- the centre of missionary enterprise, when darkness was thick upon the land after Ninian had died at Whithorn, on the Solway, and before Columba had set foot upon

Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883

After which the Doctor sat down -- there was some difficulty in getting the family to sit in his presence -- and held a thorough review of the family history for the last year, dwelling upon the prospects of Charlie, for whom the Doctor had got a situation, and Jean, the married daughter, whose husband might one day have a farm with four pair of horses in the carse of Gowrie.

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

The standard of liberty had been raised by him on the carse of Gowrie, and he carried it in his victorious arm from east to west, from the most northern point of Sutherland to the walls of Stirling; but there, the garrison which the treason of the late regent had admitted into that citadel gave a momentary check to his career.

The Scottish Chiefs 1875

He and Lord March came upon the carse at the time I went thither to meet my gallant countrymen; and these two noblemen, though so lately the friends of Edward, united with the rest in proclaiming me regent.

The Scottish Chiefs 1875

We were within the regions watered by the Nile, and the harvests resembled those of the carse of Gowrie.

Round the World Andrew Carnegie 1877