Definitions for sedge

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Spelling: [sej]
IPA: /sɛdʒ/

Sedge is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in sedge (deegs).

Definitions for sedge

noun

  1. any rushlike or grasslike plant of the genus Carex, growing in wet places. Compare sedge family.
  2. any plant of the sedge family.
  3. siege (def 5).

Origin of sedge

before 900; Middle English segge, Old English secg; akin to saw1; presumably so named from its sawlike edges

Examples for sedge

One of the lower terraces had become a wild mere of sedge and reeds.

Moreover, the sedge was so thick, that it was with difficulty they could use their oars.

Still, he could not remember that he had ever before been able to climb up a sedge.

Already it had cleared the sedge, and was floating out in open water.

The swan, after clearing the sedge, rose almost vertically into the air.

The rest of High Bar is only a few acres of sedge and marsh.

I waded on, casting and playing beyond the lily pads and sedge.

They lay across the road, or to either hand in the melancholy fields of sedge.

It is suspended by the tail to any firm object in the neighbourhood of the sedge.

The members thereof may not use mats made of the sedge of this name.

Word Value for sedge
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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