Clough

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A ravine.
  • n. Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
  • n. A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
  • n. An allowance in weighing. See cloff.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
  • n. A cliff; a rocky precipice.
  • n. The cleft or fork of a tree.
  • n. A wood.
  • n. A sluice; especially, a sluice for letting off water gently, as in the agricultural operation of improving soils by flooding them with muddy water. Also clow.
  • n. A large vessel of coarse earthenware.
  • n. See cloff.
  • Word Usage
    "Layout made and coded by Stephanie. (c) i need to go toilet, fast mm so bored. i got sore throat and it HAS evolved into full blown phlegmy clough. bleah"
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    cloff   
    Synonym
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    Rhyme
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