Definitions for sedges

sedges sedge

Spelling: [sej]
IPA: /sɛdʒ/

Sedges is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in sedges (deegss).

Definitions for sedges

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 sedges

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

Examples for sedges

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for sedges
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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