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Definition of Cloughs
1. clough [n] - See also: clough
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloughs
Literary usage of Cloughs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Exchequer Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Gordon (1850)
"These cloughs, and the sluices or drains, have continued ever since. The manner
in which the plaintiffs supplied their mills from these sources was to let ..."
2. The Revised Reports by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1905)
"These cloughs, and the sluices or drains, have continued ever since. ... mills from
these sources was to let down the cloughs at about ten o'clock at night, ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on Draining Bogs and Swampy Grounds by James Anderson (1801)
"2dly, The quantity of land the fame drains and cloughs will be fuf- ficient to warp.
3dly, The expence of building the cloughs, cutting the drains, ..."
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