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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Clough

Clough, n.

noun

(klŭf), n. [A-S. clough, Scot. cleugh, cloff, clove; Icel. clofi, fissure, Ger. kluft, gap, from A-S. cleofan, clūfan, &c. See CLEAVE, v. i.] A cleft in a hill; a narrow valley between two hills. Nares.

Clōugh, n.

noun

(klŭf) (Synop., §130), n.

  1. An allowance of two pounds in every hundred weight, after tare and tret have been deducted, for the turn of the scale, that the commodity may hold out in retailing. [Written also clof.]
  2. A kind of sluice for letting off water gently, used for the purpose of improving soils by flooding them with muddy water. [Written also clouse.]