A type of slightly raised landscape, with sandy and gravelly soils, that occurs in the plains of Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark.
Origin
A substantivization of Low German güst, from Middle Low German gēst, from Old Saxon gīnan, from Proto-West Germanic *gīnan. See also German gähnen.
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