CLOUGHS

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.

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.