Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
cloff . - noun A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
- noun A cliff; a rocky precipice.
- noun The cleft or fork of a tree.
- noun A wood.
- noun A sluice; especially, a sluice for letting off water gently, as in the agricultural operation of improving soils by flooding them with muddy water. Also
clow . - noun A large vessel of coarse earthenware.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
- noun A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
- noun (Com.) An allowance in weighing. See
cloff .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A
ravine . - noun Formerly an
allowance of twopounds in every threehundredweight after thetare andtret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of smalldeductions from the original weight.
Etymologies
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Examples
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ianthopia Diary Entry ianthopia 2005
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Passing through Nockcliffe plantation, a half-mile of woodland that straggled along the steep sides of a clough, a drop of rain fell between the branches and coursed down her cheek -- a cheek fevered from want of tears, and flaming with a sense of shame.
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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Southern dene or Lancashire clough or Devon cleave,
Epithalamion 1918
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He strained his eyes to catch another glimpse of the mounted figures when they came up out of hollows to the clough-tops, but the lacy veils of evening were drawing closer, and he looked in vain.
The Alaskan James Oliver Curwood 1903
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A solitary figure had climbed up out of the ravine and stood against the sun on the clough-top.
The Alaskan James Oliver Curwood 1903
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Southern dene or Lancashire clough or Devon cleave,
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published Gerard Manley Hopkins 1866
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So he kissed the youngling, and rode away south across the stream and over the other side of the clough.
The Sundering Flood William Morris 1865
denni commented on the word clough
(n.) steep valley or ravine 9Oxford Dictionary of English)
July 28, 2008
qms commented on the word clough
Aren’t gorge and ravine quite enough
For valleys and such hollowed stuff?
Barranca and canyon
Don’t need a companion.
I think we’ll dispense with this “clough”.
See comments at barranca.
June 3, 2018