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clough
/klʌf/
noun 5name 4
Collocations
3VERB + CLOUGH
braken, features
CLOUGH + NOUN
allowance
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
1
A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
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.
2
A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
I have, accordingly, estimated the depth of drain at the lower end to be 1 foot 6 inches deeper than the fill of the clough, and given it a progressive rise to suit with 5 feet depth below the surface at its head.
When the spring tide begins to ebb, the flood gate is opened to admit the tide, the clough having been previously shut by the weight of water brouht up the river by the flow of the tide. As the tide ebbs down the river, the weight or pressure of water being taken from the outside of the clough next the river, the tide water that has been previously admitted by the flood gate opens the clough again, and discharges itself slowly but completely through it.
3
The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
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.
4
A wood; weald.
noun
1
Alternative form of cloff (“allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight”).
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.
name
1
A surname transferred from the common noun.
2
A village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.
3
A village in County Laois, Ireland.
4
An extinct town in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
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The day-sky glimmered on the dew[…] And lurked in heath and braken clough
Wiktionary02
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 downthrowi
Wiktionary03
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.
Wiktionary04
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,
Wiktionary05
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 re
Wiktionary06
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 Sutt
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