CLOUGH

Etymology

Proper noun

Clough

A surname.

Etymology 1

Noun

clough (plural cloughs)

(Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.

A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

A cliff; a rocky precipice.

(dialectal) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.

(dialectal) A wood; weald.

Etymology 2

Noun

clough (plural cloughs)

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.

Source: Wiktionary


Clough, n. Etym: [OE. clough, cloghe, clou, clewch, AS. (assumed) cloh, akin to G. klinge ravine.]

1. A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. Nares.

2. A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. Knight.

Clough, n. (Com.)

Definition: An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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