Minch

[ minch ]

noun
  1. a sea channel between mainland Scotland and the Outer Hebrides islands. 25–45 miles (40–70 km) wide.: See also Little Minch.

  • Also called North Minch .

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How to use Minch in a sentence

  • On the day when the fog fell and we ran down Alan's boat, we had been running through the Little Minch.

    Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson
  • My dear, Mrs. Minch took her in her arms, Bess is better off.

    In Wild Rose Time | Amanda M. Douglas
  • He came down to dinner, but Lady Augusta Minch was very shy of him.

    The Death of the Lion | Henry James
  • Beyond the bay is the Minch, bounded in the extreme distance by the Isle of Skye.

    Gairloch In North-West Ross-Shire | John H. Dixon, F.S.A. Scot
  • It forms a broad bay, land-locked on right and left, and open to the Minch on the north.

    Gairloch In North-West Ross-Shire | John H. Dixon, F.S.A. Scot

British Dictionary definitions for Minch

Minch

/ (mɪntʃ) /


noun
  1. the Minch a channel of the Atlantic divided into the North Minch between the mainland of Scotland and the Isle of Lewis, and the Little Minch between the Isle of Skye and Harris and North Uist

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