clough
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In the following exceptions, however, gh is pronounced as f: cough, chough, clough, enough, laugh, rough, slough, tough, trough.
From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Joseph Triemens
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 W. P. Haskett Smith
"You are quite sure the hut is behind the clough; and the rindle, which, being interpreted from your base vernacular, I believe means a gutter, in front of it?"
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
To the left, in a clough, was an enormous yellow marlpit, with pools of water in its depths, and gangways of planks along them, and a few overturned wheelbarrows lying here and there.
From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett
And at nightfall, when the driven Bolts of heaven Smite the rock and break the bluff, Thither troop the elves whose home is Where the foam is, And the echo and the clough.
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall
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