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Webster 1913 Edition

Clough

Clough

,
Noun.
[OE.
clough
,
cloghe
,
clou
,
clewch
, AS. (assumed)
clōh
, akin to G.
klinge
ravine.]
1.
A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
Nares.
2.
A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
Knight.

Clough

(?; 115)
,
Noun.
(Com.)
An allowance in weighing. See
Cloff
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Clough

CLOUGH

,
Noun.
cluf. A cleft in a hill. In commerce, an allowance of two pounds in every hundred weight, for the turn of the scale, that the commodity may hold out in retailing.

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