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turlough|ˈtuːrləʊx|
[ad. Ir., Gael. turloch a brook, ground covered with water in winter and dry in summer, f. tur whole, absolute, entire + loch lake, pool.]
(See quots.)
1685Phil. Trans. XV. 958 As to those places we call Turloughs, quasi Terreni lacus, or land-lakes; they answer the name very well, being lakes one part of the year of considerable depth; and very smooth fields the rest. 1861Zoologist XIX. 7617 Serving..as water-courses for the ‘buried’ rivers which give rise to the sink-holes and turloughs for which the district of the Burren is famous. 1878Kinahan Geol. Irel. xix. 325 When the water during floods rises in the [shallow hollows], it overflows the adjoining lands, forming the turloughs, which are usually lakes in winter and callows in summer. |