tarn

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She said the animal is likely to have been kept at a pet, ending up in the tarn when owners struggled to keep up with its care demands or decided they did not want it.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2024

After the glacier is gone, the bowl at the bottom of the cirque is often occupied by a lake called a tarn.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

I learned that a tarn is a pond, a gill is a stream, and duckboards are slats across boggy ground.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2015

Primum, constat nullum habuisse tarn pugnare: quod exsurrexerunt, quia non debuit.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

In one place a forest of giant madrone trees joined their tops over a true tarn, a black, spring-fed lake.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck