An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
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The hovercraft skimmed across the open flats.
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the eastern end of the salt flat; mud flat, tidal flat, flood flat
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Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat.
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1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Envy”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
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My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
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1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC: