clough

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

From Th' Barrel Organ by Waugh, Edwin

The mud, mingled with stones, many of large size, rolled down a precipitous and rugged clough that descended from it.

From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Leyland, Francis A.

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

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

In the following exceptions, however, gh are pronounced as f:—cough, chough, clough, enough, laugh, rough, slough, tough, trough.

From Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Anonymous