Tarn

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /tɑː(ɹ)n/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)n

Origin

From Old Norse tjǫrn ("a small mountain lake without tributaries"). Cognate with Norwegian tjern ("small forest or mountain lake")

Noun

1. (Northern England) A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
• 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, , (1997), 1,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.

Anagrams

• rant
• tRNA