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Lough vs Clough - What's the difference?

lough | clough |

As nouns the difference between lough and clough

is that lough is a lake or long, narrow inlet, especially in Ireland while clough is a narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.

As a proper noun Clough is

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lough

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A lake or long, narrow inlet, especially in Ireland.
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    Synonyms

    * loch (in Scotland)

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    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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