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单词 clough
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cloughn.

/klʌf//klaʊ/
Forms: Old English * clóh, Middle English cloȝ, Middle English– clough, (Middle English cloghe, clow, Middle English–1600s clowgh). plural Old English * clógas, Middle English cloȝes, cloughes, clous, Middle English–1500s clowes, cloes. modern dialect cluff, cloof, clufe, clow, cloo; also Sc. cleuch n.
Etymology: Represents an Old English *clóh, clóges, probably = Old High German klâh (Sievers). The Lancashire pronunciation cloof (compare enoof = enough ) has given rise to an erroneous notion that this word is related to Icelandic klofi or Dutch kloof ‘cleft, rift’, with which it cannot possibly have connection. The phonetic history and dialect forms clearly show that it is parallel to bough , enough , plough , tough , etc., < Old English -óh . That clóh existed in Old English is also shown by the numerous ancient proper names in Clough- , -clough , -cleuch . The parallel Old High German klâh in Klâhuelde (Foerstemann II. 371) confirms the view of the Rev. A. L. Mayhew ( Academy, 31 Aug., 7 & 21 Sept. 1889) that Old English *clóh represented an Old Germanic *klâh- < klanχo-, and thus stood in ablaut-relation to German klinge , Old High German chlingo , a clough (pre-Germanic root *glenk- ); compare hang n.
1. A ravine or valley with steep sides, usually forming the bed of a stream or torrent.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > gorge or ravine
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c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1761 Into a grisly clouȝ Þai and þat maiden ȝode.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17590 Þir caitif Iuus, Sent in to clinttes and in to clous To seke iesu.
c1420 Anturs of Arth. xii Of poundes, of ploes..of cliffes, of cloes [other rhymes broes, groes = brows, grows].
c1440 York Myst. xv. 52 And kepis þis catell in þis cloghe.
1574 R. Robinson Rewarde of Wickednesse Prol. sig. B4v In Hill, Dale, and Clowgh,..in smooth or in rough.
?c1600 (c1515) Sc. Field (Lyme) l. 393 in I. F. Baird Poems Stanley Family (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Birm.) (1990) 246 And killed them like catiffes in clowes all aboute.
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence ix. 285 A clough or clowgh, is a kynd of breach or valey down a slope from the syde of a hill, where comonly shragges and trees do grow.
1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 10 Clough, a Valley between two steep hills.
1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake iii. xiv. 240 The day-sky glimmered on the dew... And lurked in heath and braken clough [= cleugh].
1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood I. i. v. 118 Like a will-o'-the-wisp or a boggart of the clough.
1855 E. Waugh Sketches Lancs. Life (1857) 19 Descending into some quiet little clough.
1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 20 Aug. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vi. 362 There is a deep Clough, or dell.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Cleugh, or clufe, a rocky glen. Clufe-sled, the slope or slide of the chasm.
2. Occasionally it seems to have been = ‘cliff’.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > cliff > [noun]
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a1400–50 Alexander 4863 Hoge hillis þam beforn, Cloȝes at was cloude, he clynterand torres.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 941 The kyng coveris þe cragge wyth cloughes fulle hye.
a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 542 He herd the dragon, ther he lay Vndyr-nethe a clow [rhymes he drowe, swowe, i-nowe].
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