clough
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Is clough a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.Examples: "The day-sky glimmered on the dew[…] And lurked in heath and braken clough"; "These beds form no good escarpments southward of the clough; but they appear to be higher than the corresponding beds on the opposite side; there would thus seem to be a fault in the valley downthrowing on the west, but it is quite hidden by débris."; "The features of a clough fall well in with a Teutonic idea that Thor, their thunder-god, had smitten these places when in fits of fury and made the deep gashes in the hillsides."Northern-EnglandUS
2. (dialectal) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.Examples: "The same praise should not be refused to the North-countryman who talks of "the clough" of the tree, literally the valley, the cleft, where the branches part."dialectal
3. (dialectal) A wood; weald.dialectal
noun (English)
1. (historical) Alternative form of cloff (“allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight”).Examples: "Tare, Trett, and Clough, are to be deducted out of the Gross Weight; and the remainder is the Neat Weight of such Goods; for which the trader pays the Merchant who sells them, at so much per Hundred, Pound, &c. according to Agreement."; "4. Clough, which is an Allowance in every Draught of the Scale, that the Weight may hold out in case they are re-weigh'd. Tare, Tret, and Clough, are to be deducted out of the Gross Weight, and the remainder is the neat Weight of the Goods."; "This Clough is an Allowance on some Sort of Goods for the Turn of the Scale, and when you have deducted the Tret, as in the last Question, that Remainder, 46 C. 3 qrs. 6 lbs. must still be called Suttle, because you have the Clough yet to be deducted from it."alt-ofalternativehistorical
Definition source: Wiktionary