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Locheid, n. [Contracted f. loch-heid, Loch n. b and Hede n.1 7 c.] The head of a loch. — 1545 Reg. Paisley App. 3.
Et quatuor denariatas terrarum nostrarum de Glen vocatas lie Locheid cum pertinentiis c 1630 Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II. 150.
And these two locheids they are but one short myll betwixt them 1659 Rothesay B. Rec. 996.
At the head of a fauld of the locheid of Ascoge
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