Associations to the word «Clough»

Wiktionary

CLOUGH, noun. (Northern England) (US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
CLOUGH, noun. A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
CLOUGH, noun. A cliff; a rocky precipice.
CLOUGH, noun. (dialectal) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
CLOUGH, noun. (dialectal) A wood; weald.
CLOUGH, 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.
CLOUGH, proper noun. A surname​.

Wise words

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