Usually means: Marshy or muddy areas of land.
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  1. sloughs: Merriam-Webster
  2. sloughs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sloughs: Vocabulary.com
  4. slough's, sloughs: Wordnik
  5. sloughs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sloughs: Wiktionary
  7. sloughs: Dictionary.com
  8. sloughs: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sloughs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sloughs: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. sloughs: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Slough)

noun:  The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
noun:  Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
verb:  (transitive) To shed skin or outer layers.
verb:  (intransitive) To slide off or flake off, as an outer layer, such as skin, might do.
verb:  (transitive, card games) To discard.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.
noun:  (British) A muddy or marshy area.
noun:  (Eastern US) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
noun:  (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
noun:  A state of depression.
noun:  (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
noun:  A town in east Berkshire, England (formerly Buckinghamshire), close to Heathrow Airport.
noun:  A borough and unitary authority (Slough Borough Council) in Berkshire.
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