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linn

or lin

[ 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.


linn

/ lɪn /

noun

  1. a waterfall or a pool at the foot of it
  2. a ravine or precipice
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of linn1

before 1000; conflation of Old English hlynn torrent (not recorded in ME), and Scots Gaelic linne, cognate with Irish linn, Welsh llyn
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Word History and Origins

Origin of linn1

C16: probably from a confusion of two words, Scottish Gaelic linne pool and Old English hlynn torrent
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Example Sentences

For the Museum of the North, Linn says, pushing for the opportunity to exhibit Bus 142 just made sense.

I just read an interview with Roger Linn, the inventor of the Linn Drum.

Each week, in the wealthy adjacent Portland suburbs of Lake Oswego and West Linn, battles rage.

“Modeling Nature” includes works by designers at Joris Laarman Lab and architect Maya Linn and Ammar Eloueini.

Seven minutes later, a West Linn police officer was knocking at the door.

Boyle was immediately suspicious, said West Linn Police Sgt. Neil Hennelly.

I must add that Linn at a later period renounced this quasi-assimilation, and that modern zoologists have unanimously rejected it.

Hence many fabulous stories which are told, were once believed concerning this curious linn.

He crossed the plains in 1864, when a lad of but nine years, and became a resident of Linn county, Oregon.

At Linn of Dee there is now a handsome white granite bridge, which was opened by the Queen as long ago as the year 1857.

It was only the seclusion of that narrow glen, so beautiful with its birch-trees and its linn, that saved the lonely habitation.

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