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▪ I. loch1 Sc.|lɒx|
Forms: 4–6 locht, louch, (6 louche), 6– loch.
[Gael. (and Irish) loch. Cf. the Anglo-Irish lough. The word was adopted in ONorthumbrian as luh.]
A lake; applied also to an arm of the sea, esp. when narrow or partially landlocked.
1375Barbour Bruce iii. 430 In A nycht and In A day, Cummyn owt our the louch ar thai. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xx. (Blasius) 309 Þe tyrand þane gert bynd hym fast & in a depe locht hyme cast. 1501Douglas Pal. Honour iii. vi, Bot suddanelie thay fell on sleuthfull sleip, Followand plesance drownit in this loch of cair. a1586Satir. Poems Reform. xxxvi. 84 Quhen that þe Quene wes in the Louche Inclusit. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 40 Amang the Lochis or bosumis of the Sey. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Crimes Pecuniall 146 Na greene lint, suld be laid in lochs, or running burnes. c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1818) II. 102 Winding hollows between the feet of the mountains whereinto the sea flows..these the natives call lochs. 1791Boswell Johnson 13 Sept. an. 1773, Kingsburg conducted us in his boat across one of the lochs, as they call them, or arms of the sea. 1806Gazetteer Scotl. (ed. 2) 22 Extensive arms of the sea which bear the name of lochs. 1847Emerson Poems, Forerunners Wks. (Bohn) I. 447 On eastern hills I see their smokes, Mixed with mist by distant lochs. 1901Longm. Mag. May 90 You may have heard friendly owls hooting to each other across a loch.
b. attrib. and Comb., as loch-fishing, loch-foot, loch-side, loch-trout; loch-leech local Sc., a leech; loch-maw, a species of mew (Jam.); loch-reed (see quot.).
1860G. H. K. Vac. Tour 165, I do not care much for *loch-fishing myself.
1895Crockett Men of Moss Hags xlvi. 328 The lads..now lay quiet enough down in the copse-wood at the *loch-foot.
1741Compl. Fam.-Piece i. i. 43 In this Case Blood is to be taken at the Arm, or with *Loch-Leeches. 1829Hogg Sheph. Calendar I. 182 The gowk kens what the tittling wants, although it is not aye crying Give, give, like the horse loch-leech.
1673Wedderburn Vocab. 16 (Jam.) Larus, a *loch-maw.
1777Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. 1131 Arundo phragmites. The *Loch-Reed.
1375Barbour Bruce iii. 109 Ane narow place, Betuix a *louchside and a brae. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 46 Vpon the loch-syd of the Ness..is situat a verie..ancient hous. 1899Crockett Kit Kennedy 224 The household at the farm by the lochsides.
1875W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 21 The grey *loch-trout plays in the depths of the little inland seas.
▪ II. loch2 Mining. ? Obs.
(See quots.)
1789J. Williams Min. Kingd. I. 288 These open caverns are frequently met with in hard mineral veins, and they are generally called by miners lochs, or loch-holes. 1874J. H. Collins Metal Mining Gloss., Loch, a cavity in a vein, a vugh. Derbyshire term.
▪ III. loch
variant of lohoch. |