clough

/klaสŠ/

IPA: /K L AW1/

noun
  1. 1

    A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    A cliff; a rocky precipice.

  4. 4

    The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.

  5. 5

    A wood; weald.

noun
  1. 1

    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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