Lochan vs Tarn - What's the difference?
lochan | tarn |
(Scotland) A small loch.
* 2009 , , Glencoe , Amberley 2009, p. 23:
(Northern England) A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
* 1839, (1997),
As nouns the difference between lochan and tarn
is that lochan is pond, pool, small lake while tarn is tower.As a verb tarn is
.lochan
English
Noun
(en noun)- The moor is a bare and ancient landscape; the dank mosses studded with a mosaic of tiny lochans , stumps of vanished trees, largely devoid of sustenance for man and beast, an almost mythical emptiness where dragons, outlaws and elves might easily be imagined!
Anagrams
* ----tarn
English
Noun
(en noun)1,
- It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.