grough

British

/ ɡrʌf /

noun

mountaineering a natural channel or fissure in a peat moor; a peat hag

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Etymology

Origin of grough

C20: possibly the same as grough, an obsolete variant of _gruff in the obsolete sense: ``rough'' (of terrain)

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grough

Thus graff or grough is compounded of grave and rough; and trudge from tread or trot, and drudge.

From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson

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