- the best-known Scottish name including this term is Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, which played an important strategic role in the First and Second World Wars. A flow is an arm of the sea, or a bight, channel or haven with deep water or strong flowing tides. The Scottish National Dictionary records use of the word with reference to the Pentland Firth in the mid-twentieth century. Inland, the term usually refers instead to a morass, swamp or peat-bog.
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