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clough Definition

clough (kluf, kloĢµu)

noun

Rare a narrow gorge

Etymology: ME < OE cloh- < *klanh; akin to Ger klinge, narrow gorge

clough Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • wooded: This ranges from narrow wooded cloughs to high, open moorland.

Modifies a noun

  • woodland: Or discover the magical beauty of Fairy Glen, a small secluded clough woodland near Appley Bridge.
  • side: Run-off is also favored by the steep slopes of the clough sides which run back into the high plateau.

Noun used with modifier

  • moorland: The spruce, however, so favored by our foresters on economic grounds, is alien to our moorland cloughs.
Clough Quotes

There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.

—Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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