linn

Definition

A waterfall or cataract (torrent of water running over a rocky bed), or a ravine down which such a waterfall rushes.

Etymology

From Middle English *linne, from Old English hlynn (“torrent”).

Example Sentences

• "What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?"
• ""For it's o'er the bank, and it's o'er the linn, "And it's up to the meadow ridge—" "Ay," quo' the Stumpie hirpling in,"
• "And the roaring of the linn."