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loch
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11 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. loch
  2. Loch Leven trout
  3. sea-loch
  4. Achray, Loch
  5. Holy Loch
  6. Katrine, Loch
  7. Leven, Loch
  8. Linnhe, Loch
  9. Lomond, Loch
  10. Ness, Loch
  11. Rannoch, Loch

loch

noun \ˈläk, ˈläḵ\

Definition of LOCH

1
Scottish : lake
2
Scottish : a bay or arm of the sea especially when nearly landlocked
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Examples of LOCH

  1. <in his biography of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell tells of being conducted by a Scottish boatman “across one of the lochs, as they call them, or arms of the sea”>

Origin of LOCH

Middle English (Scots) louch, from Scottish Gaelic loch; akin to Latin lacus lake — more at lake
First Known Use: 14th century

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Synonyms
arm, bay, bight, cove, creek [chiefly British], embayment, estuary, firth, fjord (also fiord), inlet, gulf [Scottish]

Rhymes with LOCH

bloc, block, bock, brock, chock, clock, cock, croc, crock, doc, dock, floc, flock, frock, grok, hock, jock, knock, lakh, lock, Locke, lough, moc, mock, nock, pock, roc, rock, schlock, shock, smock, sock, Spock, stock, wok

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