loch

[ lok, lokh ]

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nounScot.

a lake.
a partially landlocked or protected bay; a narrow arm of the sea.

Origin of loch

1350–1400; Middle English (Scots ) louch, locht<Scots Gaelic loch,Old Irish loch lake, cognate with Latin lacus,Old English lagu;see lake¹, lough

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How to use loch in a sentence

The best lochs for yellow trout are decidedly those of Sutherland.
Angling Sketches | Andrew Lang
We had tried all the rivers and burns to no purpose, and the lochs are capricious and overfished.
Angling Sketches | Andrew Lang
There are no railways, and there are two hundred lochs and more in the Parish of Assynt.
Angling Sketches | Andrew Lang
There is more chance for anglers, now, in Scotch lochs than in most Scotch rivers.
Angling Sketches | Andrew Lang
Wild-fowl breed on its reedy lochs, and moor-fowl dwell on its heather hills.
The Norsemen in the West | R.M. Ballantyne

British Dictionary definitions for loch

loch

/ (lɒx, lɒk) /

noun

a Scot word for lake 1
Also called: sea loch a long narrow bay or arm of the sea in Scotland

Origin of loch

C14: from Gaelic

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