- this term is applied specifically to the rocky stretch of the River Dee at Tongland in Kirkcudbrightshire. In 1926, Joseph Robison described the local topography:
The hill slopes steeply to the south and east, where the Dee... enters the rocky gorge of the Doachs.
The name Doachs is derived from Gaelic dabhach in the sense 'vat, tub', although another meaning of the word is 'a measure or land', which in Scots has become davach or davoch and is generally restricted to the north and east.