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Definition of Clough
1. n. A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
2. n. An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.
Definition of Clough
1. Noun. (American English) A ravine. ¹
2. 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
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clough
1. a ravine [n -S] - See also: ravine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clough
Literary usage of Clough
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"The business was not prosperous, and clough undertook liabilities which pressed
... 458), had been strongly attracted by clough, and regarded him as ' a ..."
2. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"from Exeter College, his friend and contemporary, Arthur Hugh clough, had resigned
his ... clough had been a favourite pupil of Arnold's, and offered a ..."
3. William George Ward and the Oxford Movement by Wilfrid Philip Ward (1889)
"He was considerably Newman's junior and his disciple; whereas clough was ...
To the very end of his life he spoke with the tenderest affection of clough, ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1862)
"Many persons to whom the name of clough was only beginning to be adequately known
when ... By Arthur Hugh clough, sometime Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. ..."
5. Brief Literary Criticisms by Richard Holt Hutton (1906)
"THE UNPOPULARITY OF clough THE appearance of Mr. Waddington's admiring and
sympathetic "monograph" on clough—why call, by the way, a publication of this ..."
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