Clough

Word CLOUGH
Character 6
Hyphenation clough
Pronunciations /klaʊ/

Definitions and meanings of "Clough"

What do we mean by clough?

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.

A cliff; a rocky precipice.

The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.

A wood; weald.

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The word "clough" in example sentences

And, you know, I think there's some concern that, you know, that Microsoft -- from the government that Microsoft could kind of clough that up if they insist on trying to make everything work with Windows. ❋ Unknown (2000)

#67 POSTED BY jeffrey clough, Apr 28th, 2008 7: 29 pm wrap it up ❋ Unknown (2008)

#160 POSTED BY jeffrey clough, May 10th, 2008 9: 34 am excellent prize ❋ Unknown (2008)

Layout made and coded by Stephanie. (c) i need to go toilet, fast mm so bored. i got sore throat and it HAS evolved into full blown phlegmy clough. bleah ❋ Ianthopia (2005)

Passing through Nockcliffe plantation, a half-mile of woodland that straggled along the steep sides of a clough, a drop of rain fell between the branches and coursed down her cheek -- a cheek fevered from want of tears, and flaming with a sense of shame. ❋ Marshall Mather (N/A)

Southern dene or Lancashire clough or Devon cleave, ❋ Unknown (1918)

He strained his eyes to catch another glimpse of the mounted figures when they came up out of hollows to the clough-tops, but the lacy veils of evening were drawing closer, and he looked in vain. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)

A solitary figure had climbed up out of the ravine and stood against the sun on the clough-top. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)

So he kissed the youngling, and rode away south across the stream and over the other side of the clough. ❋ William Morris (1865)

Steelhead spake no more of his folk and the old days, but about the fowl and fish and other wild things that haunted that clough, and of shooting in the bow and so forth. ❋ William Morris (1865)

It was getting too near dark to go by the moor tops, so I made off towards a cottage in the next clough, where an old quarry-man lived, called "Jone o'Twilter's." ❋ Edwin Waugh (1853)

The house nestled deep in the clough, upon a shelf of green land, near the moorland stream. ❋ Edwin Waugh (1853)

A considerable circuit had to be made before the bottom of the clough could be reached, and then the whole tragedy was revealed. ❋ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1843)

He saw the summits and angles of the old building touched with the cheerful beams, and the grand old trees, and at the opposite side the fells dark, with their backs towards the east; and down the side of the wooded and precipitous clough of Feltram, the light, with a pleasant contrast against the beetling purple of the fells, was breaking in the faint distance. ❋ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1843)

In close vicinity, there is a deep clough or dell, as shaggy and wild as a poet could wish, and with a little stream running through it, as much as five miles long. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

Tread softly, for this is the Boggart's clough; and see in yonder dark corner, and beneath the projecting mossy stone, where that dusky sullen cave yawns before us, like a bit of Salvator's best, there lurks the strange elf, the sly and mischievous Boggart. ❋ John Roby (1821)

What said I to thee, Goody Dickisson, in the clough yonder, by the hollow trunk of the oak? ❋ John Roby (1821)

Billys a football man and he is in the clough/ferguson mould speaks his mind is a real fighter. ❋ Nffc (2010)

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