linn

American  

[lin] / lɪn /

Or lin

noun

Chiefly Scot.

1. a waterfall or torrent of rushing water in a river or stream.

2. a pool of water, especially at the foot of a waterfall.

3. a steep ravine or precipice.

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linn British  

/ lɪn /

noun

1. a waterfall or a pool at the foot of it

2. a ravine or precipice

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Etymology

Origin of linn

before 1000; conflation of Old English hlynn torrent (not recorded in ME), and Scots Gaelic linne, cognate with Irish linn, Welsh llyn

Example Sentences

She also runs the Washington-based Roberta Flack Enterprises, which includes a publishing linn, a talent agency and a production company.

From Time Magazine Archive

And now young Keeldar reach’d the stream, Above the foamy linn; The Border lances round him gleam, And force the warrior in.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert

Duncan sigh'd baith out and in, Grat his een baith bleer't and blin', Spak o' lowpin o'er a linn; Ha, ha, the wooing o't.

From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)

Just as my uncle was about to enter the bramble-bushes at the foot o' the linn, he was met by a trooper on horseback.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various

It is noted for a very fine variety of trout, and salmon are sometimes taken below the linn at East Linton.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various