Clough

·noun A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.

II. Clough ·noun An allowance in weighing. ·see Cloff.

III. Clough ·noun A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

clough
a valley between two hills, Northumb. Hence Clem of the Clough, one of Robin Hood's men. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
clough
A word derived from the verb to cleave, and signifying a narrow valley between two hills. (See cleug...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Clough, Arthur Hugh
(1819-1861) Poet, s. of a cotton merchant in Liverpool, he spent his childhood in America, but was ...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin