clough
clough
Definition
clough (kluf, klo̵u)
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.
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