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Word entry · 4 letters

linn

Best crossword clue

"Rocky cascade"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /lɪn/Sorted ilnnStarts with LEnds with N2 cluesCommon crossword word
1L2I3N4N

Definitions

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

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Rocky cascade4 letters
02Waterfall4 letters

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