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What is the noun for swamps?

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swamper
  1. (US) A person who lives in a swampy area. [from 18th c.]
  2. (US) A person who clears a road for lumberers in a forest or swamp. [from 19th c.]
  3. Someone or something that swamps or overwhelms. [from 19th c.]
  4. (Canada) A truck driver's assistant; an assistant to a driver of horses, mules or bullocks. [from 19th c.]
  5. (Australia, slang) a person who travels by foot but has his belongings on a wagon. [from 19th c.]
  6. (US) A handyman or general employee in a liquor saloon; a cook's assistant. [from 20th c.]
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  8. Examples:
    1. “He looked about him as if he expected the swamper to materialize out of thin air.”
      “After a few minutes, the swamper thrust the pan back into its hiding place.”
      “Because they could pull two wagons and a water tender if needed with a two-man crew, a teamster and a swamper, they cut desert freighting labor costs by half.”
swamp
  1. A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
  2. A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically to that environment.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Hollister and Estlin picked their way through the marshy swamp, avoiding thorny branches reaching out for them.”
      “If we are going to get out of this economic swamp, we are going to have to revisit that tax policy.”
swamplife
  1. (US) The animals and birds that inhabit swamps.
swamping
swampiness
  1. The quality of being swampy.
swampings
swampers
  1. plural of swamper
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In 1969, the Swampers left FAME and started their own studio, Muscle Shoals Sound.”
      “All have beaten a path to Florence, Muscle Shoals and Sheffield to harness the creativity of the Swampers.”
      “One of those bands was The Swampers, whose members later opened the rival Sound Studio.”
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