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Lochan

Lochan \Loch"an\, n. [Gael. See 1st Loch.] A small lake; a pond. [Scot.]

A pond or lochan rather than a lake.
--H. Miller.

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lochan

n. (context Scotland English) A small loch.

Usage examples of "lochan".

He was the member of a First-In expedition to a world which, on Patrol charts, is named Lochan for the man who first made landfall there.

There is no defense against Patrol sensors, unless the establishment would be a major one and Lochan certainly could not support such.

He had his mental exercises, his work with Taynad and the Jat, even the necessity of making mental notes for anything picked up in the conversation concerning Lochan which could be put to future use.

Its use on Tssek had confirmed for Zurzal that he could do this, but to be able to deliver a find from Lochan would reestablish his credit among his own peers.

It was toward that they continued doggedly even as the sun set and the quick dusk of Lochan closed in.

Afterwards strangers unlike any Jofre had seen on Lochan moved through those crumbling ruins.

On Lochan he could not help but believe that they were without any friends.

In particular there was a tiny lochan, thronged with wildfowl, which was connected by a reedy burn with the Callowa.

He had stridden over them for hours and had found delectable things--a new lochan with trout rising among yellow water-lilies, a glen full of alders and singing waters, a hollow with old gnarled firs in it and the ruins of a cottage pink with foxgloves.

Another turn brought them out to a marshy saddle with its own lochan of dead, peaty water.

They stopped for a while above the lochan to drink some tea from their flasks and put on another layer of clothing.

One night we had a delightful camping-ground on the edge of a lochan well stocked with duck, which Boggley set out to shoot and ended by missing gloriously.

Gerald had reached the end of the lochan where a streamlet entered, and was now progressing along the other shore.

As they came out of Lochan Sal and rounded the point the wind increased and the waves steepened.

Then, when they reached the shores of the lochan, Muldaren stopped and pointed to a pole which was planted vertically in the shallow water.