muskeg

plural muskegs

1. CanadacountableuncountableA terrain composed of peat bog with tussocky meadow and woody vegetation including spruce.

   Work on the muskeg resulted in the formation in the first instance, and later in lengths of newly-laid track disappearing without trace into the treacherous bog.

   1959 March 28, “New Railways in Quebec”, in Railway Magazine, page 202

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   Here, in a decaying cluster of buildings, the Winnipeg train turns gratefully back to the south and hurries to leave behind it the anonymous tangle of forests and muskegs.

   1952, Farley Mowat, People of the Deer, Key Porter, published 2005, page 2