Kloof vs Loof - What's the difference?
kloof | loof |
(South Africa) A glen; a ravine
* 1901 , William Thomas Black, The Fish River bush, South Africa, and its wild animals
(anatomy, now, chiefly, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The palm of the hand.
(anatomy, now, chiefly, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The hand, especially, the hand outspread and upturned.
(nautical, obsolete) A contrivance (apparently a paddle or an oar) used for altering the course of a ship.
(nautical) The after part of the bow of a ship where the sides begin to curve.
The spongy fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Luffa aegyptiaca ).
(Webster 1913)
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As nouns the difference between kloof and loof
is that kloof is (south africa) a glen; a ravine while loof is (anatomy|now|chiefly|dialectal|northern england|scotland) the palm of the hand or loof can be (nautical|obsolete) a contrivance (apparently a paddle or an oar) used for altering the course of a ship or loof can be the spongy fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (luffa aegyptiaca ).kloof
English
Noun
(en noun)- Forming the south boundary of the valley is a range of disrupted bushy hills, with intervening deep and rugged kloofs and ravines, which constituted the retreat of Jan Pockbaas and his rebel banditti.