clough

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge. Northern-England,US
    — The day-sky glimmered on the dew[…] And lurked in heath and braken clough
  2. Alternative form of cloff (“allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight”). alt-of,alternative,historical
    — 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.
  3. 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.
  4. The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch. dialectal
    — 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.
  5. A wood; weald. dialectal

词形变化

cloughs plural cleugh alternative,Scotland cleuch alternative,Scotland cleugh alternative,Cumbria,Northumbria cloughs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Howden Clough

词源

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.
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