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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CLOUGH, n. cluf. A cleft in a hill. In commerce, an allowance of two pounds in every hundred weight, for the turn of the scale, that the commodity may hold out in retailing.

Merriam Webster's

biographical name Arthur Hugh 1819-1861 English poet

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. dial. a steep valley usu. with a torrent bed; a ravine. Etymology: OE cloh f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Paddle Pad"dle, n. [See Paddle, v. i.] 1. An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats. 2. The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle. Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon. --Deut. xxiii. 13. 3. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel. 4. A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough. 5. (Zo["o]l.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle. 6. A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing. 7. [In this sense prob. for older spaddle, a dim. of spade.] See Paddle staff (b), below. [Prov. Eng.] Paddle beam (Shipbuilding), one of two large timbers supporting the spring beam and paddle box of a steam vessel. Paddle board. See Paddle, n., 3. Paddle box, the structure inclosing the upper part of the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. Paddle shaft, the revolving shaft which carries the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. Paddle staff. (a) A staff tipped with a broad blade, used by mole catchers. [Prov. Eng.] (b) A long-handled spade used to clean a plowshare; -- called also plow staff. [Prov. Eng.] Paddle steamer, a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels, in distinction from a screw propeller. Paddle wheel, the propelling wheel of a steam vessel, having paddles (or floats) on its circumference, and revolving in a vertical plane parallel to the vessel's length.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Clough Clough, n. [OE. clough, cloghe, clou, clewch, AS. (assumed) cl[=o]h, akin to G. klinge ravine.] 1. A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. --Nares. 2. A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. --Knight.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Clough Clough (?; 115), n. (Com.) An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cloff Cloff (?; 115), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. [Written also clough.] --McCulloch.