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adj. - (of soil) soft and watery.

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Usage examples (7)
  • The railroad station was a one-room frame box, a mirey cattle - pen on one side and a crimson wheat-elevator on the other.
  • She knew well enough when she reached the public track, despite the darkness for the mirey clay stuck to her shoes and made the walking difficult.
  • One morning, the rains were suddenly vanished, the blue and wide East Anglian skies were back, and Gregory saddled up Daisy and rode. out along the mirey track he had so...
  • In crossing a mirey place just before encamping one of my horses was mired.
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