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Where a lake stores its liquid assets until drought calls in the loan.
means The basin or depression that holds — or once held — a lake's water, exposed when the water level drops or dries up entirely.
from A plain compound: 'lake,' from Old English 'lacu' (meaning a stream or pool, possibly related to Latin 'lacus'), joined to 'bed' in its old geographic sense — the ground something rests upon, as in 'riverbed' or 'seabed.' That sense of 'bed' as 'the bottom surface beneath a body of water' has been standard in English since at least the 1600s, extending the cozier household meaning outward to describe nature's own furniture.
- geology
- flat basin sediment, often clay, left behind
- dry version
- becomes a playa, cracked into tile-like polygons
- speed records
- Bonneville Salt Flats is an ancient lake bed
- farming bonus
- drained ones make eerily fertile, flat cropland