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Clough

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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. An allowance in weighing. See cloff.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A ravine.
  • 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.
  • Word Usage
    "And, you know, I think there's some concern that, you know, that Microsoft -- from the government that Microsoft could kind of clough that up if they insist on trying to make everything work with Windows."
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    Bilbao  Bow  Chao  Chow  Dow  
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    ravin  ravine  
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