Chris Barker wrote:
> ....
>
> Back on the subject of the Chinook Tarn, so a small lake is called a
> tarn in some areas of the US? There are places in England where the
> same is the case.
>
Small, glacier or snow melt fed, possibly seasonal, mountain lake is how
I would have defined the word.
Not common around here, as the Sierra Nevadas are full of such bodies of
water, all called lakes.
I probably picked it up from reading, as opposed to oral learning.
Moose
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