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Small mountain lake
Answer for the clue "Small mountain lake ", 4 letters:
tarn
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Word definitions for tarn in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., mid-13c. in Anglo-Latin, from Old Norse tjörn "small mountain lake without visible tributaries," from Proto-Germanic *terno , perhaps originally "water hole" [Barnhart]. A dialectal word popularized by the Lake poets.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context Northern England English) A small mountain lake, especially in northern England.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A tarn (or corrie loch ) is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier . It is formed when either rain or river water fills the cirque . A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn.
Usage examples of tarn.
Istae duae definitiones tarn contrariae sibi sunt, quam contrarium est necessitas et voluntas, quarum confirmatio ex mutua negatione generatur.
Tarns gave a quick report, reporting on the status of the expedition since its arrival at the Sanctuary protostar, including the loss of the scout boat during the initial explorations.
Near the tarn the path was frozen, but not the unemptied pools nor the stream from them.
The tarn, like the dark mysterious dwelling of an Undine, was spread out before them with the smoothness of glass, though untransparent, and shining beneath their eyes like a vast basin of the richest jet.
Istae duae definitiones tarn contrariae sibi sunt, quam contrarium est necessitas et voluntas, quarum confirmatio ex mutua negatione generatur.
Even to this rule there are exceptions, and one of these is in the case of a tarn which I shall call, pleonastically, Little Loch Beg.
Arinnian remembered that Vodan, in partnership with various youths from Stormgate, Many Thermals, and The Tarns, had launched a silvicultural engineering firm.
Eighteen hundred feet below, it might be more, the Tarn threaded lush bottom-lands, tilled fields, goodly orchards, plantations of walnut and Spanish chestnut, and infrequent, tiny villages that clung to precarious footholds between cliffs and water.
He could have his sandwich and Scotch, and the pleasure of watching Sir Felix Tarns lose a little of that stiff-necked composure, too.
Have you forgotten it was I who put you in a yoke, who whipped you, who condemned you to the Amusements, who would have given you to the tarn?
In the engagement of the 25th of Se'Kara we had used tarns at sea, but they had been kept below decks in cargo ships until beyond the sight of land.
It was subject to attack by forces beached to the west from the tarn fleets of Port Kar, through the marsh itself by the barges of Port Kar, or from the east or north, depending on hte marches following the disembarkation of Port Kar forces.
The supply lines of such a force, given the barges of Port Kar and her tarn cavalries, might be easily cut.
I could see the large, beamlike tarn perch extending from the portal, out over the street far below.
Once the tarnsmen of Treve had withstood the tarn cavalries of even Ar.