name
Meaning 1
A surname transferred from the common noun.
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Standard Lemma guide
clough
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/klʌf/
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/klaʊ/
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name
Meaning 2
A village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.
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name
Meaning 3
A village in County Laois, Ireland.
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name
Meaning 4
An extinct town in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
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noun
Meaning 5
A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
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Usage: Northern-England, US
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noun
Meaning 6
A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
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noun
Meaning 7
The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
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Usage: dialectal
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noun
Meaning 8
A wood; weald.
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Usage: dialectal
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noun
Meaning 9
Alternative form of cloff (“allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative, historical
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History
Etymology
* As an English surname, from the noun clough. * As a Welsh surname, from cloff (“lame”), from Late Latin cloppus, perhaps ultimately imitative of a limping person. * As an Irish place name, from Irish an Chloch, "the stone".
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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