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Webster 1913 Edition


Cloff

Cloff

(klŏf; 115)
,
Noun.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
[Written also
clough
.]
McCulloch.