Words4Nerds #3
2002-07-19
After a week of hiking in the mountains of Wyoming, I decided to devote this week's lexicographical excursus to geographical terms of (mostly) Anglo-Saxon origin. Here they are:
- tarn -- a small mountain lake
- tor -- a rocky hill
- rill -- a small stream or rivulet
- bight -- a bend in a coastline forming a large open bay
- hummock -- a low, rounded knoll or hillock
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