clough

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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

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

The house nestled deep in the clough, upon a shelf of green land, near the moorland stream.

From Th' Barrel Organ by Waugh, Edwin

What said I to thee, Goody Dickisson, in the clough yonder, by the hollow trunk of the oak?

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

It stands on t'other side o' the lake, on the level wi' a deal o' a'ad trees behint and aside it at the gap o' the clough, under the pike o' Maiden Fells.

From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan