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Definition of Cloff
1. n. 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.
Definition of Cloff
1. 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. ¹
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Definition of Cloff
1. a cleft [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloff
Literary usage of Cloff
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant: Improved and Enlarged. Being a Plain by Nathan Daboll, Samuel M. Green (1828)
"the quotient will be the cloff, which subtract from the suttle, and the remainder
... 25 cloff'. ns. 4175 neat weight. £. What is the neat weight of 26 cwt. ..."
2. Practical Arithmetic: Or, The Rule of Practice Methodized & Improved by John Dean (1761)
"cloff is an Allowance of zlb. for every 3 C. Neat is the Weight of the Goods
after all Allowances are deducted. I. WHEN the Tare is at fo much in the Whole. ..."
3. The London Gentleman's and Schoolmaster's Assistant: Containing by Thomas Whiting (1787)
"TRETT is an Allowance, made by the Merchant cloff is an Allowance of ilb. to the
Citizens of London, on every Draught above ywt. on fome fort of Goods. ..."
4. A Complete System of Practical Arithmetic, with Various Branches in the by William Taylor (1800)
"When clofF is allowed with tare, to find the net weight, RULE. ... quar* ters,
and pounds of the given weight, will make the whole clofF, ..."
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