Slough n.
1. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
He's here stuck in a slough. --Milton.
2. A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
Note: [In this sense local or provincial; also spelt sloo, and slue.]
Slough grass Bot., a name in the Mississippi valley for grasses of the genus Muhlenbergia; -- called also drop seed, and nimble Will.
slough grass
n : North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous
margins and glumes with long awns [syn: prairie
cordgrass, freshwater cordgrass, Spartina pectinmata]