पोल्डर,

polder's Usage Examples:

The first phase of the "de-poldering" has been completed by 2008 and the resulting wetlands have been added.

had been inundated in the course of the hostilities and sponsored the impoldering of De Moeren, a marshy area that is presently astride the Belgian–French.

so-called polder in the Netherlands that was reclaimed from a lake, the water being extracted from the lake by windmills.

The rice polders are protected from flooding by seawater with bunds.

The area has been re-empoldered since, and the modern village of Borssele is approximately on its site.

breached, thereby flooding the polders in which the Spanish troops were camped, like the Achtermeer polder.

The etymology of the word polder/poller is unclear.

Boundaries of these polders show as old dikes across the farmland.

Until then, the area was a rural polder.

south of the lough a number of islands (Burt, Inch, Coney, Big Isle) were poldered and the land reclaimed during the 19th century for agriculture and the.

In the Middle Ages, and until the later Wieringermeer was poldered in and the harbor filled in, Aartswoud was a harbor village on the Zuiderzee.

Around 1500, Hieronymus Lauweryn van Watervliet commissioned the poldering of the land, and rebuilt the village.

Nieuw Nickerie was originally planned on a polder created in 1869, but was moved further in land.

Synonyms:

soil, ground, land,

Antonyms:

unfasten, disconnect, leave, embark,