COL

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Sounds like coll, call, caul (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒl

Borrowed from French col, from Latin collum (“neck”). Doublet of collum.

A dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks. We spent half an hour on the summit before returning to our camp, where we stuffed the frozen tent and all the gear into our packs and started the long descent of the southwest ridge to rejoin Harish and others who were still encamped on the col at the foot of it.
A pressure region between two anticyclones and two low-pressure regions.

Sounds like coll, call, caul (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒl

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