clough

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"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 Ainsworth, William Harrison

A considerable circuit had to be made before the bottom of the clough could be reached, and then the whole tragedy was revealed.

From A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales by Young, Charles L. (Charles Lawrence), Sir

"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

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 Kendall, Henry

A clough; also, a sort of boat used in Ireland, a coracle.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir