Meanings
proper noun
- A village in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT1796).
How nicely we could manage without the said railway, now the great hobby of our Teviotdale lairds, if we could by any process of conjuration waft to Abbotsford some of the coal and lime from Lochore...
1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90, words written by Scott
Origin
Named after Loch Ore, a nearby lake.
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APA
Lochore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lochore
MLA
“Lochore.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lochore. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Lochore,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lochore.
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