Definition of Turloughs

1. Noun. (plural of turlough) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Turloughs

1. turlough [n] - See also: turlough

Lexicographical Neighbors of Turloughs

turkeyitis
turkeyless
turkeys
turkies
turkieses
turkis
turkises
turkle
turkles
turkling
turkois
turkoises
turkoman
turks
turlough
turloughs (current term)
turm
turmaline
turme
turmeric
turmeric root
turmerics
turmerol
turmes
turmit
turmits
turmoil
turmoiled
turmoiling
turmoils

Literary usage of Turloughs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Valleys and Their Relation to Fissures, Fractures, and Faults by George Henry Kinahan (1875)
"Some of the lakes and turloughs on the low ground are affected by the rise and ... of the fresh water, which accordingly rises in the lakes or turloughs. ..."

2. Transactions (1849)
"(14th March ) On the Drainage of the Mantua turloughs in the County of Roscommon, and the formation, for that purpose, of a Deep Cut through ..."

3. Transactions (1849)
"The turloughs are divided into three portions by ridges of comparatively high land ... The quantity of land covered in these turloughs at this state of the ..."

4. The Gallery of Nature and Art; Or a Tour Through Creation and Science by Edward Polehampton, John M. Good (1821)
"into fish-ponds ; by planting a few trees about them, they may be made both useful and ornamental. As to those places called turloughs, quasi terreni lacus, ..."

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