Weald vs Clough - What's the difference?
weald | clough |
A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; often used in place names.
* Tennyson
(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.
As proper nouns the difference between weald and clough
is that weald is (british) the physiographic area in south-east england situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the north and the south downs while clough is .weald
English
Noun
(en noun)- Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald', / And heard the spirits of the waste and ' weald / Moan as she fled.
Anagrams
* * ----clough
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (Scotland)Noun
(en noun)- (Nares)
- (Knight)