Clough
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /klʌf/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Clough is a noun meaning (Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
Meaning
(Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
More Meanings
- A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
- (dialectal) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
- (dialectal) A wood; weald.
- (historical) Alternative form of cloff (“allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight”).
Example Sentences
The day-sky glimmered on the dew[…] And lurked in heath and braken clough
Now we've sorted that out, the easiest way is up the clough and along the bridleway.
The features of a clough fall well in with a Teutonic idea that Thor, their thunder-god, had smitten these places when in fits of fury and made the deep gashes in the hillsides.
I have, accordingly, estimated the depth of drain at the lower end to be 1 foot 6 inches deeper than the fill of the clough, and given it a progressive rise to suit with 5 feet depth below the surface at its head.
Word Forms
- cloughs
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cleuch, cloof, clift, couloir, cleve, cliffage.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.