linn
Americannoun
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a waterfall or torrent of rushing water in a river or stream.
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a pool of water, especially at the foot of a waterfall.
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a steep ravine or precipice.
noun
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a waterfall or a pool at the foot of it
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a ravine or precipice
Etymology
Origin of linn
before 1000; conflation of Old English hlynn torrent (not recorded in ME), and Scots Gaelic linne, cognate with Irish linn, Welsh llyn
Example Sentences
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She also runs the Washington-based Roberta Flack Enterprises, which includes a publishing linn, a talent agency and a production company.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’ll loup the linn when ye canna wade, I’ll kirn the kirn, an’ I’ll turn the bread; An’ the wildest fillie that e’er ran rede I’se tame’t,’ quoth Aiken-drum!
From Spare Hours by John Brown
An’ guidly folks hae gotten a fricht, When the moon was set, an’ the stars gaed nac licht, At the roaring linn in the howe o’ the nicht, Wi’ sughs like Aiken-drum.
From Spare Hours by John Brown
The linn of Dee, where the river rushes furiously between two narrow rocks, is generally the most remote object visited by the tourist on Dee-side.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
So I came down the west side of the water of Ken, by the doachs, or roaring linn, where the salmon sulk and leap.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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