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loch

[lok, lokh]

noun

Scot.
  1. a lake.

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



loch

/ lɒk, lɒx /

noun

  1. a Scot word for lake 1

  2. Also called: sea loch.a long narrow bay or arm of the sea in Scotland

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Word History and Origins

Origin of loch1

1350–1400; Middle English ( Scots ) louch, locht < Scots Gaelic loch, Old Irish loch lake, cognate with Latin lacus, Old English lagu; lake 1, lough
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Word History and Origins

Origin of loch1

C14: from Gaelic
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In a country with 30,000 freshwater lochs, water scarcity is not usually high on the agenda.

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Police received a report about 21:00 on Saturday that that a man who was swimming in the loch had gone missing.

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No footage of Nessie has been found on the camera, but one of the submarine's engineers was able to develop a few images of the loch's murky waters.

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"We have a freshwater stream running through garden which goes from loch to sea so we very often see them around - just not in the kitchen."

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A combination of prevailing winds and the rotation of the earth drive litter up the loch to create what is known as the Arrochar litter sink.

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