strath
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of strath
1530–40; < Irish, Scots Gaelic srath; akin to stratum
Example Sentences
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The Isle of Flowers was very lovely now, and the valley— “Oh?” cried Annie, in raptures, as she gazed down the verdant strath.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Stables, Gordon
But the weak and less vigorous loadstones, enfeebled by the flow of humours, are visible in every region, in every strath.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William
Dugald was still our mighty hunter, the fearless Nimrod of hill and strath and glen.
From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Stables, Gordon
A feature of the strath, or valley, occupied by this little Scoto-Welsh colony was the sandhills or dunes.
From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Stables, Gordon
Through vale, o'er hill, by forge and mill, Past upland village, coastward town, Up Scottish strath, o'er Irish rath, Across Welsh hill and English down.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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