tarn

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küçük dağ gölü
göl
(isim) dağ gölü
dağda bulunan ufak göl
{i} dağ gölü
English - English
A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England

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.

A tarn is a small lake in an area of mountains. A river, about 378 km (235 mi) long, of southern France flowing generally west and southwest to the Garonne River. A small mountain lake, especially one formed by glaciers. a small lake among mountains
A deep, typically circular lake that forms when a cirque glacier melts
A small mountain lake (3)
Lake which forms in the base of a cirque
A small mountain lake that occurs inside a cirque basin
a small lake
a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers)
A small lake formed in a creek or glacial valley
A lake in the bedrock basin of a cirque
A mountain lake or pool
{i} small mountain lake
A small steep-banked mountain lake or pool, generally formed by a glaciation process

Related Terms

Tarn River
River, southwestern France. Rising in the Lozère Mountains, it flows west and southwest for 233 mi (375 km) into the Garonne River. Its magnificent gorges, which extend more than 30 mi (48 km) through limestone plateaus, are popular tourist attractions
tarns
plural of tarn
tarn

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    Etymology

    [ 'tärn ] (noun.) 14th century. From Old Norse tjǫrn (“a small mountain lake without tributaries”). Cognate with Norwegian tjern (“small forest or mountain lake”)
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