clough.
A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
Meaning & usage
A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
A wood; weald.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English clough, clow, cloȝ, from Old English *clōh, from Proto-West Germanic *klą̄h (“cleft, sluice, abyss”), of uncertain origin, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to form into a ball”). Cognate with Scots cleuch (“gorge; ravine”), Old High German klāh (in placenames), Old High German klingo, klinga (“brook, cataract, gulf, rapids”). Perhaps conflated or influenced by Old Norse klofi (“a cleft or rift in a hill, ravine”); compare Dutch kloof (“a slit, crevice, chink”). See also cling, clove.
Alternative form of cloff (“allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight”).
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