noun
- plural of clough: narrow valleys or ravines, especially in hilly areas
Usage: British English; dialectal
Examples
- The hikers descended into the steep cloughs between the hills.
- Water rushed through the rocky cloughs after the heavy rain.
- The ancient cloughs provided shelter for wildlife.
- Sheep grazed on the slopes above the narrow cloughs.
- The map showed several cloughs cutting through the moorland.
- Mist often gathered in the deep cloughs at dawn.