Crossword-Solution: LOUGH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lough | n. | A loch or lake; -- so spelt in Ireland. |
| Lough | obs. strong imp. | of Laugh. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LOUGH | anagram | GHOUL |
We have 11 clues for the answer “LOUGH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dubliner's lake | 1 answer |
| Irish water | 1 answer |
| Lake, in Limerick | 1 answer |
| Lake in Ireland | 2 answers |
| Irish lake | 4 answers |
| ARM of sea | 5 answers |
| Loch ___ | 6 answers |
| sea arm | 10 answers |
| Lake ___ | 23 answers |
| BASIN ___ | 49 answers |
| Water | 93 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with LOUGH (5)
Herde al this thing Criseyde wel y-nough, 1590 And every word gan for to notifye; For which with sobre chere hir herte lough; For who is that ne wolde hir glorifye, To mowen swich a knight don live or dye? But al passe I, lest ye to longe dwelle; 1595 For for o fyn is al that ever I telle.
EARLY IMPRESSIONS We steamed out of the Clyde on Thursday night, and early on the Friday forenoon we took in our last batch of emigrants at Lough Foyle, in Ireland, and said farewell to Europe.
The reader will remember the lines of Burns in his address to the "De'il," which so well express the popular notion on this point-- "Ae dreary, windy, winter night, The stars shot down wi' sklentin light, Wi' you, mysel, I got a fright Ayont the lough; Ye, like a rash-bush, stood in sight Wi' waving sough.
While at Galway, we looked down into the river Corrib from the Upper Bridge, and beheld it literally black with the backs of salmon! They were waiting for a flood to enable them to ascend the ladder into Lough Corrib.
What they'll do to it'll make the Big Wind look like a summer breeze on Lough Lene! An' that's about all, Larry.
Quotes with LOUGH (2)
Only hinted at in some of these tales, and clearly stated in others, it is apparent that there was a long and continuing conflict between paganism and Christianity in the early centuries A.D. This may also be the explanation behind other well creation tales, such as the slaying by St Barry of a 'great serpent' in County Roscommon. The saint thrust his crozier at it before it disappeared into Lough Lagan, and where his knee touched the ground, a holy well, Tobar Barry, sprang …
Allegorical stories of saints battling with giants, monsters and demons may be interpreted as symbolizing the Christian's fight against paganism. At Bwlch Rhiwfelen (Denbigh) St Collen fought and killed a cannibal giantess, afterwards washing away the blood-stains in a well later known as Ffynnon Gollen. In Ireland, the tales of saints slaying giant serpents may have the same meaning; alternatively they (or some of them) may refer to early sightings of genuine water monsters.…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1971–2009).