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alkali flat
noun
- a level area, as a dry lake bed, in which evaporation has concentrated alkali minerals, as sodium sulfates and carbonates. Compare salt flat.
alkali flat
noun
- an arid plain encrusted with alkaline salts derived from the streams draining into it
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Word History and Origins
Origin of alkali flat1
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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Example Sentences
As it lay through an uninhabited alkali flat, the right of way could be easily obtained.
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Each "drive" brought together on some alkali flat thousands of the restless, milling, bawling cattle.
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Trail dust sure does make a man's throat dryer'n an alkali flat!
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Ride down the barranca two hundred yards and you'll come to an alkali flat.
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The rear of the saloon was partitioned off into a "Ladies' Room," whose door opened on the alkali flat behind.
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