Word Meanings - CLOUGH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. Nares. 2. A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. Knight.

Related words: (words related to CLOUGH)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• WATERWORT
  Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
• WATER SHREW
  Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew , is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.
• DEPOSITOR
  One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository.
• WATER-TIGHT
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
• WATER RAT
  The water vole. See under Vole. The muskrat. The beaver rat. See under Beaver. 2. A thief on the water; a pirate.
• CLEFTGRAFT
  To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
• WATER CRAKE
  The dipper. The spotted crake . See Illust. of Crake. The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• WATER DOG
  A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• WATER CLOCK
  An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
• WATER SAIL
  A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
• VALLEY
  1. The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream.
• WATERIE
  The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.
• WATER BALLAST
  Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
• WATER RAM
  An hydraulic ram.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.