linn

American  

[lin] / lɪn /

Or lin

noun

Chiefly Scot.

1. a waterfall or torrent of rushing water in a river or stream.

2. a pool of water, especially at the foot of a waterfall.

3. a steep ravine or precipice.

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linn British  

/ lɪn /

noun

1. a waterfall or a pool at the foot of it

2. a ravine or precipice

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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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linn

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

And now young Keeldar reach’d the stream, Above the foamy linn; The Border lances round him gleam, And force the warrior in.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland

Down to Ealan Eagal I went for a plunge in the linn in the old style, and the airs of Shira Glen hung about me like friends and lovers, so well acquaint and jovial.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro

‘And ay, at every seven years’ end, Ye’ll tak him to the linn; For that’s the penance he maun drie, To scug his deadly sin.’

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick

I soon found it, the bark of a linn or bee-tree root.

From A Virginia Scout by D. C. Hutchison