Clough vs Plough - What's the difference?
clough | plough |
(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.
A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
An alternative name for Ursa Major or the Great Bear.
A carucate of land; a ploughland.
* Tale of Gamelyn
A joiner's plane for making grooves.
A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
To use a plough on to prepare for planting.
To use a plough.
(vulgar) To have sex with.
To move with force.
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To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
(bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
(joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
As proper nouns the difference between clough and plough
is that clough is while plough is (constellation|british) the common name for the brightest seven stars of the constellation ursa major.clough
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (Scotland)Noun
(en noun)- (Nares)
- (Knight)
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
* cloffNoun
(en noun)References
* *plough
English
(wikipedia plough)Alternative forms
* (US) plowNoun
(en noun)- The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.
- Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five.
Usage notes
The spelling (m) is usual in the United States, but the spelling plough may be found in literary or historical contexts there.Derived terms
* moldboard plow * ploughman * ploughshare * snowplough * sodbuster ploughVerb
(en verb)- I've still got to plough that field.
- Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.
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- Let patient Octavia plough thy visage up / With her prepared nails.
- With speed we plough the watery way.