Col

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  • noun. A pass between two mountain peaks or a gap in a ridge.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A narrow pass between two mountain peaks: a term used in English by some writers on alpine geology and mountaineering.
  • noun. The assimilated form of com-, con-, before l. See com-, con-.
  • noun. A name given by Abercrom by in 1887 to the region on a weather-map between two anticyclones, where the isobars show a connecting neck or narrow region of lower pressure analogous to the col that affords a passage from one mountain peak to its neighbor: not to be confounded with a trough or an area of low pressure.
  • noun. An abbreviation of Colonel as a title, and
  • noun. of Colossians.
  • noun. [lowercase] An apothecaries' abbreviation of coliander, an obsolete form of coriander.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A dip between mountain peaks in a summit-line.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a pass between mountain peaks
  • Word Usage
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    altro  ancora  braccio  caccia  col-  
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    abysm  abyss  arroyo  box canyon  breach