It's a lovely word, although I know only one whose name I can
remember, Malham Tarn in the Yorkshire Dales. It's a Karstic
landscape, as I remember, and a site of special scientific interest
(SSSI), probably.
Some friends called their daughter Tarn ...
Chris
On 3 Mar 2008, at 09:03, Moose wrote:
> 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.
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