Swamp

[Sarah]

Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, butnot usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern. Tennyson.A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs,while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses. FarmingEncyc. (E. Edwards, Words).Swamp blackbird. (Zoöl.) See Redwing (b).-- Swamp cabbage (Bot.), skunk cabbage.-- Swamp deer (Zoöl.), an Asiatic deer (Rucervus Duvaucelli) ofIndia.-- Swamp hen. (Zoöl.) (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird(Porphyrio bellus); -- called also goollema. (b) An Australian watercrake, or rail (Porzana Tabuensis); -- called also little swamp hen.(c) The European purple gallinule.-- Swamp honeysuckle (Bot.), an American shrub (Azalea, orRhododendron, viscosa) growing in swampy places, with fragrantflowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called alsoswamp pink.-- Swamp hook, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling logs.Cf. Cant hook.-- Swamp itch. (Med.) See Prairie itch, under Prairie.-- Swamp laurel (Bot.), a shrub (Kalmia glauca) having small leaveswith the lower surface glaucous.-- Swamp maple (Bot.), red maple. See Maple.-- Swamp oak (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak which growin swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak (Quercus palustris), swampwhite oak (Q. bicolor), swamp post oak (Q. lyrata).-- Swamp ore (Min.), big ore; limonite.-- Swamp partridge (Zoöl.), any one of several Australian game birdsof the genera Synoicus and Excalfatoria, allied to the Europeanpartridges.-- Swamp robin (Zoöl.), the chewink.-- Swamp sassafras (Bot.), a small North American tree of the genusMagnolia (M. glauca) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-whiteblossoms; -- called also sweet bay.-- Swamp sparrow (Zoöl.), a common North American sparrow (MelospizaGeorgiana, or M. palustris), closely resembling the song sparrow. Itlives in low, swampy places.-- Swamp willow. (Bot.) See Pussy willow, under Pussy.

[Sarah]

The name of Hawkeye and Trapper Johns tent/home on the original movie MASH(1970) as well as the series. Frequently used as a haven for consuming alcoholic beverages as well as cavorting with nurses.

[Kit]

An area of low-lying, uncultivated ground where water collects; a bog or marsh.