Clough vs Chough - What's the difference?
clough | chough |
(Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
A cliff; a rocky precipice.
(label) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
(label) A wood; weald.
Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
Two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia.
The , of genus Corcorax in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands.
As nouns the difference between clough and chough
is that clough is a narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge while chough is two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia.As a proper noun Clough
is {{surname|lang=en|from=common nouns}.clough
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (Scotland)Noun
(en noun)- (Nares)
- (Knight)
