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
A lake that is confined to a glacial cirque is known as a tarn such as Silver Lake near Brighton Ski resort located in Big Cottonwood Canyon or Avalanche Lake in Glacier National Park.
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
“The tarn, is it ‘black and lurid’ enough?”
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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Physical Geography - High School
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