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
Wha was sae stout, and feared nae dout, As thraw ye o’er the linn?’
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick
Small: like ll in million; as, linn an age, lion fill, pill to return, slighe a way.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart
Just as my uncle was about to enter the bramble-bushes at the foot o' the linn, he was met by a trooper on horseback.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
They dance through wood and meadow, they dance across the linn, 153Till the mighty Alpine summits have shut the music in.
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Richard Henry Stoddard
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