clough English

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What does clough mean?

clough noun

— (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.

clough noun

— 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.

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