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Loch

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Loch  (lk, lô)
See Lake.
loch  (l, lk)
n. Scots
1. A lake.
2. An arm of the sea similar to a fjord.
[Middle English louch, from Scottish Gaelic loch, from Old Irish.]
loch [lɒx lɒk]
n
1. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a Scot word for lake1
2. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Also called sea loch a long narrow bay or arm of the sea in Scotland
[from Gaelic]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Lochloch - a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked)
inlet, recess - an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
2.loch - Scottish word for a lake
lake - a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
Translations
loch [lɒx] N (Scot) → lago m; (= sea loch) → ría f, brazo m de mar
loch [ˈlɒx] n → lac m, loch m
loch
n (Scot) → See m; (= sea loch) → Meeresarm m
loch [lɒx] n (Scot) → lago
loch [lɒx] n (Scot) → lago


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At his death the wife went back across the loch to her own people, and the blot on the escutcheon of Island McGill was erased.
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William Gilpin, who is so admirable in all that relates to landscapes, and usually so correct, standing at the head of Loch Fyne, in Scotland, which he describes as "a bay of salt water, sixty or seventy fathoms deep, four miles in breadth," and about fifty miles long, surrounded by mountains, observes, "If we could have seen it immediately after the diluvian crash, or whatever convulsion of nature occasioned it, before the waters gushed in, what a horrid chasm must it have appeared!
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And throughout the whole book we have wonderful pictures of Scottish life as it then was--pictures of robbers' caves, and chieftains' halls, of the chiefs themselves, and their followers, of mountain, loch, and glen, all drawn with such a true and living touch that we cannot forget them.
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