"Minch" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1750, Francis Grant, A Letter to a Member of Parliament Concerning the Free British Fisheries, page 21:",
          "text": "The best Place for a Staple [of herrings], would be at Stornway, in one of the Lewis Islands, which is a good Harbour, and there are many good Hands; also it lies open to the Minch, a Sea above sixty Miles over to the main Land of Scotland, to the Southward of which lies the Isle of Sky, …",
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          "text": "That extensive bason of sea, called the Great, and the Little Minch; bounded on the west, by that chain of islands, called the Long Island, because they seem but one, when viewed at a distance; on the east, by the indented shores of Scotland: from the butt of the Lewis, to the Mull of Kintire, never fails to be filled, every year, with an immense body of herrings."
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          "text": "Come all you gallant fishermen,\nThat plough the stormy sea\nThe whole year round,\nOn the fishing grounds\nOf the Northern Minch and the Norway Deeps,\nOn the banks and knolls of the North Sea holes,\nWhere the herring shoals are found."
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