clough

FREQ #45627

n. 深谷, 峡谷

发音

CA /klʌf/
CA /klʌf/
US /klʌf/

词形变化

cloughs 复数

别名

cleugh cleuch

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.

    美国
  2. 2.

    A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

  3. 3.

    The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.

    方言
  4. 4.

    A wood; weald.

    方言
  5. 1.

    Alternative form of cloff (“allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight”).

    历史

相关短语

Howden Clough

词源

From Middle English clough, clow, cloȝ, from Old English *clōh, from Proto-Germanic *klanhaz, *klanhō (“cleft, sluice, abyss”), of uncertain origin, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to form into a ball”). Cognate with Scots cleuch (“gorge; ravine”), Old High German klāh (in placenames), Old High German klingo, klinga (“brook, cataract, gulf, rapids”). Perhaps conflated or influenced by Old Norse klofi (“a cleft or rift in a hill, ravine”); compare Dutch kloof (“a slit, crevice, chink”). See also cling, clove.

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