clough
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/klaΚ/
English
Definitions
noun
- 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.
- The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
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.