finger lake

English

Noun

finger lake (plural finger lakes)

1. A long, narrow lake of glacial origin, especially one of the Finger Lakes of New York state.

   Synonyms: fjord lake, trough lake

   • 1966, Geological Survey Special Report, numbers 43-48, page 4:

     These sediments represent a finger lake that was formed by blockage of the mouth of the stream-cut valley, […]

Further reading

• finger lake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia