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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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