Crossword clues for loch
loch
- Caledonian Canal stop
- Ness monster
- ____ Ness monster
- ____ Ness
- ____ Lomond
- Word on a map of Scotland
- Welsh : llyn :: Scots : __
- The Bonnie Banks o ___ Lomond
- Swimming spot for Scots
- Stop on the Caledonian Canal
- Sea arm, to a Scot
- Sea __ (Galway bay)
- Scottish waterway
- Scottish water
- Scottish sight
- Scottish map word
- Scottish fishing spot
- Scottish body, wet
- Scottish aquatic locale
- Scots water
- Scotland's Ness, e.g
- Scotland's Awe, for one
- Scotland's ___ Lomond
- Scotland's __ Awe
- Scotch water
- Scot's vacation site
- Scot's sailing site
- Scot's lake
- Scot's fishing spot
- Partially landlocked bay
- Nessie's waters
- Nessie's supposed home
- Nessie's milieu
- Nessie's digs
- Nessie inhabits one
- Nessie habitat, supposedly
- Nessie abode
- Ness, for example
- Ness, famously
- Ness or Tay
- Ness is one
- Monster's hangout
- Monster's habitat
- Merry __ (Honolulu bay)
- Lomond or Katrine
- Lassie's water
- Lake, to Nessie
- Lake, to Lachlin
- Lake in Scotland
- Laddie's vacation spot, perhaps
- Laddie's vacation spot
- Highland body
- -- Ness
- _____ Ness
- ___ Treig, Highland, Scotland
- ___ Raven Reservoir
- ___ Ness (Scottish home to a "monster")
- __ Raven: Baltimore neighborhood
- Scottish lake’s mysterious hold on Colm
- Ness, for one
- ___ Tay, Scotland
- Leven, for one
- Monster's home, perhaps
- ___ Ness monster
- ___ Fyne, Scotland
- Place to summer in Scotland
- Ness, e.g.
- Shetland Islands sight
- Monster-sighting spot
- Tay, say
- ___ Lomond, Scotland
- Scotland's ___ Awe
- Lomond, e.g.
- Fishing spot for Scots
- Narrow arm of the sea
- A long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked)
- Scottish word for a lake
- Maxine Sullivan's "___ Lomond"
- Ness or Lomond?
- Awe or Tay
- Large pond
- Lake, to a Scot
- Scotland's ___ Fyne
- Lomond, for one
- Lomond or Ness
- Scottish body of water
- Fjord's Scottish cousin
- Nessie's nest?
- See markings on taps giving quantity of water
- Scottish lake
- Scots lake
- Lake of Caledonian Highlands, primarily
- Nessie's home, e.g
- Ness, e.g
- ___ Ness of Scotland
- __ Ness monster
- Nessie's waterway
- Lomond, e.g
- Lake, in Scotland
- Inlet in Scotland
- Highlands lake
- The ___ Ness monster
- Scotland's ___ Ness monster
- Scotland's ___ Ness
- Fjordlike sea arm
- --- Tay, Scotland
- Word with "Raven" or "Ness"
- Start for Ness or Lomond
- Scotland's Awe, e.g
- Scotland's -- Ness
- Scot's swimming spot
- Nessie's home, for one
- Nessie's hangout
- Ness is a famous one
- Ness for one
- Lomond is one
- Leven or Lomond
- Lassie's swimming site
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loch \Loch\ (l[o^]k), n. [Gael. & Olr. loch. See Lake of water.] A lake; a bay or arm of the sea. [Scot.]
Loch \Loch\ (l[o^]k), n. [F. looch, Ar. la'[=u]g, an electuary, or any medicine which may be licked or sucked, fr. la'[=u]q to lick.] (Med.) A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Gaelic loch "lake, narrow arm of the sea," cognate with Old Irish loch "body of water, lake," Breton lagen, Anglo-Irish lough, Latin lacus (see lake (n.1)). The Loch Ness monster is first attested 1933.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context Scotland English) A lake. 2 (context Scotland English) A bay or arm of the sea. Etymology 2
n. (alternative form of looch English)
WordNet
n. a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked)
Scottish word for a lake
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Loch is the Irish and Scottish Gaelic word for a lake and a sea inlet. It is cognate with the Manx lough, Cornish logh, and the Welsh word for lake, llwch.
In English and Hiberno-English, the anglicised spelling lough is commonly found in place names, pronounced the same way as loch. In Scottish English, 'loch' is always used.
Some lochs could also be called firths, fjords, estuaries, straits or bays. Sea-inlet lochs are often called sea lochs or sea loughs
Loch is the surname of a Scottish Lowlands family whose members have included:
- George Loch of Drylaw (1749-1788), Edinburgh land-owner
- James Loch (1780–1855), Scottish estate commissioner and later a Member of Parliament
- John Loch (1781–1868), Chairman of the East India Company
- George Loch (1811–1887), Member of Parliament
- Henry Loch, 1st Baron Loch (1827–1900), Scottish soldier and colonial administrator
- Edward Loch, 2nd Baron Loch (1873–1942), senior British Army officer
- Joice NanKivell Loch (1887–1982), Australian author, journalist and humanitarian
- Kenneth Loch (1890–1961), Lieutenant-General, a Scottish soldier and defence planner
- Tam Dalyell, born Thomas Dalyell Loch, a Scottish politician; Labour Member of Parliament from 1962 to 2005
Loch is also a German surname:
- Christoph Loch, Director (Dean) of Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge
- Felix Loch (born 1989), German luger and Olympic champion
- Hans Loch (1898-1960), East German politician
- Herbert Loch (1886–1976), German general during World War II
Other people with the surname Loch include:
- Samuel Loch (born 1983), Australian rower
Loch is the Scottish Gaelic and Irish word for a lake or a sea inlet.
Loch may also refer to:
- Loch (surname)
- The Loch, a novel by Steve Alten
- Loch class frigate, a class of ship built for the Royal Navy and her allies during World War II
- Baron Loch, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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Loch, Victoria, a town in Australia
- Loch railway station
- Mount Loch, a mountain in Australia
- Loch Castle (Eichhofen), a rare example of a Bavarian cave castle
Usage examples of "loch".
Dail will be submitted by Donald of the Warrens, Senior Bedel of the Loch Confederation.
The weather was hot and dry, there wasnt a midge in sight, your mother was wearing a white linen dress, I still had all my hair, my firstborn child was burbling on my back and we were about to go down to the loch and eat strawberries and drink champagne .
Abends, als der kleine Kay zu Hause und halb ausgezogen war, kletterte er auf den Stuhl am Fenster und guckte zu dem kleinen Loch hinaus.
The rock-scoured mountain that overhung the town gleamed wet and wicked where the great slide had gashed it, tumbling millions of tons of debris down into the waters of the loch to form the hard standing that reached back from the quay.
On nights like this Bella had no difficulty in believing the Highland tales of ghosties and ghouls and monsters in the lochs.
The trees were all very black, the loch was a strange glimmery silver, and warm orange light streamed from Kingarth across the dark lawn.
It runs from a lofty gowl in the Grampians down to the slate-mines at Ballachulish, at the heid of the loch called Linnhe, which runs down to plash the shores of Mull and spaw into the Atlantic.
I pointed to the west where the mountainous shore-line, not five miles away yet barely visible through the driving rain and low scudding cloud, ran in an almost sheer drop from the head of Loch Lairg to the entrance to Torbay Sound.
The evening sun sank low in the sky as the travelers stopped near the junction of Loch Lochy and Loch Arkaig, deep in the heart of Grant territory.
Moidart, to Glenfinnan, and in August of 1745, to Loch Lochy, then on to capture Perth.
Das Regenwasser sollte aus dem Rachen seinen Ausgang nehmen, fand aber seinen Weg durch den Bauch, denn es war ein Loch in der Rinne.
Leaving the remaining slates to be airlifted roofwards, Sab and Knot climbed back in the van and headed down to the loch for more.
A rock of special interest described by Professor Judd occurs on Achvarasdale Moor, near Loch Scye, and hence named Scyelite.
I fled Kilernan a few months past, to stay in a shieling hut in the hills above Loch Garry.
They headed over to the west coast, stopping for lunch at Loch Lomond, spending the afternoon as tourists, passing through Tarbet and Crianlarich.