Clough

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.

   “The day-sky glimmered on the dew[…] And lurked in heath and braken clough”

2. isim A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

   “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.”

3. isim The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.

   “The same praise should not be refused to the North-countryman who talks of "the clough" of the tree, literally the valley, the cleft, where the branches part.”

4. isim A wood; weald.
5. isim Alternative form of cloff (“allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight”).

   “Tare, Trett, and Clough, are to be deducted out of the Gross Weight; and the remainder is the Neat Weight of such Goods; for which the trader pays the Merchant who sells them, at so much per Hundred, Pound, &c. according to Agreement.”

6. özel isim A surname transferred from the common noun.
7. özel isim A village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.
8. özel isim A village in County Laois, Ireland.
9. özel isim An extinct town in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.