Clough
noun
Arthur Hugh, 1819–61, English poet.
Clough
American
[kluhf]
/ klʌf /
noun
Clough
1
British
/ klʌf /
noun
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Arthur Hugh. 1819–61, British poet, author of Amours de Voyage (1858) and Dipsychus (1865)
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Brian. 1935–2004, English footballer and manager
clough
2
British
/ klʌf /
noun
Etymology
Origin of clough
Old English clōh
Example Sentences
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But the law does not apply to patients in remission, and so Clough is forced to travel to Texas for continued care.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
“I was supposed to be gone, but I’m not,” Clough told me two years ago in the kitchen of her home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Clough and her husband, Dr. Gene Dorio, a house-call geriatrician I’ve written about several times, were driving home from a medical appointment the other day when I reached them by phone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Eric and Jane Clough had no regrets about taking the bus earlier this month for a two-night trip to New York from Maine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Lizzie Clough said yesterday I'd a cast in one eye, but does it worry me?
From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.
It was getting too near dark to go by the moor tops, so I made off towards a cottage in the next clough, where an old quarry-man lived, called "Jone o'Twilter's."
From Th' Barrel Organ by Waugh, Edwin
So he kissed the youngling, and rode away south across the stream and over the other side of the clough.
From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May
And he made towards the clough, as if with the intention of putting his words into execution.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison
"To be sure," replied the magistrate; "but how is this?—This stone seems to me much nearer the clough than it used to be."
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison
There is seldom any climbing about a genuine clough, because it implies soil rather than rock.
From Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by Smith, W. P. Haskett
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