Medical Definition of Intervale
1. A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom. "The woody intervale just beyond the marshy land." (The Century) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intervale
Literary usage of Intervale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Some Common Animals: A Book of Animal Life by Charles George Douglas Roberts (1904)
"His assailant, less than a third of his weight, was a king-bird, whose nest, in
the crotch of an elm on the intervale meadow, the crow had been so ill- ..."
2. The Diary of Matthew Patten of Bedford, N.H. by Matthew Patten (1903)
"... place 17th we arived at the intervale and Campt 29th I finished laying out
... lotts Containing about 347 acres in the intervale on ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... occurs in many of the central blades of whalebone, at re- * In a very small
whale, the number wu 316 or 320. guiar intervale of 6 or 7 inches. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The custom of reciting prayers upon a string with knots or beads thereon at
regular intervale has come down from the early days of Christianity, ..."
5. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts by Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1904)
"Mr. ALBERT MATTHEWS communicated the following paper on — THE TOPOGRAPHICAL
TERMS "INTERVAL" AND "intervale." These words, so well known throughout New ..."
6. Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1851)
"intervale land, its different qualities and values.—Emigration fever.—Indian corn
as a fodder crop in England.—Opinion as to farming with paid labour. ..."
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