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单词 loch
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lochn.1

Brit. /lɒx/, /lɒk/, U.S. /lɑk/, /lɑx/, Scottish English /lɔx/
Forms:

α. pre-1700 loche, pre-1700 loich, pre-1700 loiche, pre-1700 looch, pre-1700 louche, pre-1700 louchhis (plural), pre-1700 lovch, pre-1700 lowch, pre-1700 1700s– loch, pre-1700 1800s louch.

β. pre-1700 locht, pre-1700 loucht, pre-1700 lowcht.

Origin: A borrowing from Scottish Gaelic. Etymon: Scottish Gaelic loch.
Etymology: < Scottish Gaelic loch (Early Irish loch ), cognate with Gaulish loco- (in place names), apparently < the same Indo-European base as Old English lagu lay n.1 Compare lough n.1 and lough n.2, and the discussion at these entries.Earlier currency is implied by the place name le Blaklouch, Bolden, Roxburghshire (a1325), which shows a compound formed within Scots.
Originally and chiefly Scottish.
A lake. Also: an inlet of the sea, esp. when narrow or partially landlocked; = sea-loch n. at sea n. Compounds 6a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun]
mereeOE
laya1000
lakec1275
poolc1275
watera1325
loughc1330
loch1427
broad1659
Mediterranean1661
Mediterrane1694
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > inlet in river or sea > in sea
fleetc893
pillOE
arm of the seaOE
sounda1300
lougha1387
bracec1400
lough1423
firthc1425
loch1427
resort1477
estuarya1552
inshot1555
mere1574
portlet1577
fret1587
frith1600
sea-gate1605
creek1625
sea-lochc1645
wick1664
fjord1674
voea1688
backwater1867
strait gulf1867
ocean-arm1871
ria1887
fjard1904
geo1934
1427 in W. Fraser Melvilles & Leslies (1890) III. 245 The said Johne..hafand fre vsche of water..fra the loch of Lochgelly.
c1480 (a1400) St. Blaise 309 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 370 Þe tyrand þane gert bynd hym fast, & in a depe locht hyme cast.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 430 In a nycht and in a day Cummyn owt-our ye louch ar yai.
1508 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 78 Nay litstaris..sall wesche thar stuf in the loche nor common rinelis [printed riuelis] of the toune.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) iii. l. 1338 in Shorter Poems (1967) 86 But suddandly thay fell on sleuthfull sleip. Followand plesance, drynt in this loch of cair.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 40 Amang the Lochis or bosumis of the Sey.
1609 J. Skene tr. Crimes in Regiam Majestatem 146 Na greene lint, suld be laid in lochs, or running burnes.
1680 in W. Mure Select. Family Papers Caldwell (1854) I. 138 Thes are to give libertie to Lieutenant Cornell Cocharan to put a boat in the loch att Caldwall.
1726 in W. Macfarlane Geogr. Coll. Scotl. (1906) I. 212 They say the river is not sonsy nor yet the loch.
1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xxii. 206 Winding Hollows between the Feet of the Mountains whereinto the Sea flows..Those the Natives call Lochs.
1785 J. Boswell Jrnl. Tour Hebrides 13 Sept. 1773, 244 Kingsburgh conducted us in his boat, across one of the lochs, as they call them, or arms of the sea.
1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Appin Extensive arms of the sea, which bear the name of lochs.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 104 On eastern hills I see their smokes Mixed with mist by distant lochs.
1901 Longman's Mag. May 90 You may have heard friendly owls hooting to each other across a loch.
1961 Life 17 May 44/2 News came that the loch would be the first overseas base for U.S. Polaris-bearing nuclear submarines.
2012 J. Fagan Panopticon (2013) xix. 200 A help-boat is motoring up the loch.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
loch bed n.
ΚΠ
1886 Jrnl. Royal Hist. & Archæol. Assoc. Ireland 7 372 It was impossible to completely trace the piling on the side of the island which faces the ancient loch bed.
1983 New Scientist 24 June 872/2 Gas escaping from organic detritus on the loch bed..is not insignificant.
2010 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 25 June 3/4 The shells were..placed on the loch bed in some 30 feet depth of water.
loch fishing n.
ΚΠ
1785 J. Anderson Acct. Present State Hebrides 353 A loch-fishing is on all hands admitted to be a most precarious business.
1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 165 I do not care much for loch-fishing myself.
2010 Frommer's Scotl. 6/2 Loch fishing is also a popular pastime in the Orkneys.
loch foot n.
ΚΠ
1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags xlvi. 328 The lads..now lay quiet enough down in the copse-wood at the loch-foot.
2010 R. Turnbull Cairngorms (new ed.) 43 At the loch foot turn left across a footbridge to the Nature Centre hut.
C2.
loch head n. the end of a loch at which a river enters.Attested earliest as a place name.
ΚΠ
1545 in C. Innes Registrum Monasterii de Passelet (1832) App. 3 Et quatuor denariatas terrarum nostrarum de Glen vocatas lie Locheid cum pertinentiis.
1659 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) 996 At the head of a fauld of the locheid of Ascoge.
1839 W. E. Gladstone Let. 15 Aug. in Diaries (1968) II. 621 Set off..for Inversnaid, Loch Katrine & the Trossachs..two hours waiting at the Loch head.
1958 R. Cusack Cadenza (1984) 154 I shall expect you..over at the loch-head.
2015 R. Turnbull Walking in Southern Uplands 44 Keep ahead towards the loch head to find a small descending path.
loch leech n. a leech; esp. the medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Hirudinea > member of (leech)
leecha900
water leechc1350
bloodsuckera1387
lough-leech1562
loch leech1579
sanguisuge1585
censur1597
leech-worm1794
hirudinean1835
sangsuea1849
snail-leech1865
1579 S. Novimola Despauterii Grammaticæ Institutionis Lib. VII (new ed.) ii. 42 Hirudo, ane Lochleiche.
1616 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) III. 587 The Scottismen as loch-leitches..soukis out ȝour merche.
1715 A. Pitcairne Method of curing Small-pox in G. Sewell & J. T. Desaguliers tr. A. Pitcairne Wks. 271 In this case Blood is to be taken at the Arm, or with Loch-Leeches.
1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. I. 182 The gowk kens what the tittling wants, although it is not aye crying Give, give, like the horse loch-leech.
1947 F. W. Dowson Goathland 123 The medicinal leech, locally known as the ‘loch’ leech, was formerly very common in the marshy Randy Mere.
2000 F. W. Robertson Early Sc. Gardeners iv. 138 For curing smallpox, after bleeding with loch leeches, the patient was given syrup of white poppies to induce sleep.
loch maw n. rare the common gull, Larus canus; cf. maw n.3
ΚΠ
a1646 D. Wedderburn Vocabula (1685) 16 Larus, a loch maw.
1955 L. S. V. Venables & U. M. Venables Birds & Mammals Shetland vi. 306 Common gull (Larus canus). Breeds Shetland, Orkney and Faeroe (since 1890: increasing). Shetland names = Loch maa and Peerie [little] maa.
loch reed n. now rare a reed, spec. the common reed, Phragmites australis.
ΚΠ
1733 J. Love Two Grammatical Treat. i. 11 He may as well say, that there was not a Laurel-tree before Daphne, nor a Loch-reed before Syrinx: For so these words signify in the Greek.
1746 Caledonian Mercury 18 Dec. in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. 113/3 In one of the Lochs there is a great Plenty of Loch-Reed growing.
1829 A. Cunningham Magic Bridle in Anniversary 150 He chafes amid a rank of steeds, From ragworts formed and long loch reeds.
2003 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 4 Oct. 18 The removal of the old roof was carefully recorded... Marram, loch reed, and heather were found to have been used as thatching materials.
loch trout n. a lake-dwelling salmonid fish; esp. the lake trout, Salmo trutta morpha lacustris.
ΚΠ
1802 J. Sinclair Ess. Misc. Subj. viii. 258/2 Red Loch Trout... White Loch Trout.
1904 S. R. Crockett Strong Mac x. 68 He had been turning half-a-dozen large loch trout, which chattered and buzzed in the pan.
2009 Times (Nexis) 17 Feb. 51 Summers in Scotland gave her a taste for fresh salmon and loch trout.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lochn.2

Brit. /lɒx/, /lɒk/, U.S. /lɑk/, /lɑx/
Forms: 1700s– loch, 1800s– lock.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from German. Etymon: German Loch.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < German Loch, which can denote any kind of cavity, although it has not been found in this specific sense (see lock n.2). Compare earlier lough n.3
Mining. Now rare.
A cavity in a rock or a mineral vein. Cf. vug n. See also lough n.3
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > cavity or opening
loch1767
vug1818
pipe1839
pocket1850
vogal1855
window1908
fenster1925
the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > cave
covec950
denOE
cavec1220
rochea1300
spelunk13..
cavernc1374
cabin1377
speke1377
antruma1398
minea1398
thurse-house?c1450
crypt?a1475
vault1535
chamber1575
antre1585
underground1594
Peak1600
lustre?1615
open?1644
cunicle1657
subterranean1714
subterrane1759
loch1767
purgatory1797
vug1818
1767 D. W. Linden Exper. & Pract. Enq. Mineral Water Llangybi iv. 38 Amongst which, in lochs, small caverns, or openings, this white [metallic] earth very frequently appears.
1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 288 These open caverns are frequently met with in hard mineral veins, and they are generally called by miners lochs, or loch-holes.
1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 247 The swells or wider parts of the vein..remained unfilled, when the other parts had become so, and such are now sometimes found open, and are called Tick-holes, Jouph-holes, Druses, Nests, Lochs, &c.
1817 Trans. Geol. Soc. 4 439 Cavities, or locks as the miners call them, are frequently met with of all sizes, from that of a walnut to that of a small room.
1903 G. W. Lamplugh Geol. Isle of Man xii. 486 Gas- or water-filled cavities known as ‘lochs’ or ‘vughs’ are likewise frequent.
2011 P. Appleton in T. D. Ford Limestones & Caves Wales (new ed.) xx. 226/1 Many solution caverns, known locally as lochs or vughs, were intersected by the different drainage tunnels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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