Ord of Caithness

proper noun

A headland (Ord Point) and high granite mass in Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ND0517).

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A headland (Ord Point) and high granite mass in Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ND0517).

    This deviation was necessary to avoid the high land round the Ord of Caithness, and the building of bridges over deep valleys near the coast.

    1950 January, Arthur F. Beckenham, “With British Railways to the Far North”, in Railway Magazine, page 6
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