Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Ireland, a temporary pond or lake in certain limestone districts.
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- noun Ireland A temporary
lake
Etymologies
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Examples
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It turns out the lake isn’t really a lake but a turlough, which is sometimes a lake, and dry at other times of the year.
Ireland, Part IV: The Burren C N Heidelberg 2008
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It turns out the lake isn’t really a lake but a turlough, which is sometimes a lake, and dry at other times of the year.
Archive 2008-08-01 C N Heidelberg 2008
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Raftery didn't see him, being blind; and he brought him to Killeenan at last, and he said: "Where can the rogue go now, unless he'll swim the turlough?"
Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892
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If on the other hand you said a cost of 100 million for a system 5 times bigger than turlough hill, I could see that being implemented but I would not be happy.
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