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Cliff vs Clough - What's the difference?

cliff | clough |

As proper nouns the difference between cliff and clough

is that cliff is a diminutive of the male given name clifford while clough is .

cliff

English

(wikipedia cliff)

Etymology 1

(etyl) clif .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
    • Synonyms
    * precipice
    Derived terms
    * cliff swallow * cliff-face * cliffed * cliffhanger * cliffing * cliffy

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music)
    • (Webster 1913)

    clough

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (Scotland)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
    • (Nares)
  • A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
    • (Knight)
  • A cliff; a rocky precipice.
  • (label) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
  • (label) A wood; weald.

    • Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * cloff

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

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