Meaning of loch in English
(Definition of loch from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of loch
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In truth, quibbles about the draining of a loch are only likely to arise from pedantic reviewers.
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He deposits his effluent from the dry closet on the shores of the nearby loch.
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It is more difficult to find sea lochs with access and shelter for salmon and where the landowner actually wants to develop a fish farm.
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I accept that the average fish farm is sited in a sea loch, but, nevertheless, is he satisfied that the distilleries are immune?
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When you restock the loch it will be like putting central heating into your house, thereby increasing the rates.
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We would then open up our deep sea lochs for the purpose of developing light industry.
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Some of them believe, rightly or wrongly, genuinely or not, that they interfere with the scenic beauty of the loch in which they are placed.
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We recognise that a substantial part of the council's road system runs beside the coast or through inland lochs with long causeways.
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At the bottom of the lochs we have a great natural compost heap in the shape of the organic waste of the sea.
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We had a lot of silly propaganda, obviously inspired by the shore interests who indulge in netting in our estuaries, rivers and lochs.
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It is necessary to get across and around the ends of the lochs.
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It has the highest mountains and the deepest lochs.
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Does someone visit these areas to give advice and to examine the problem in rivers and lochs of getting rid of predatory fish?
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I was born and brought up on the banks of that beautiful loch.
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If a hotel has fishing rights, it has an opportunity of getting extra petrol to take visitors from the hotel to the river or loch.
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