name: A surname (rare: 1 in 25000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #3405)
noun: (Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
noun: A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
noun: (dialectal) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
noun: (dialectal) A wood; weald.
noun: A surname transferred from the common noun.
noun: A village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.
noun: A village in County Laois, Ireland.
noun: An extinct town in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
noun: (historical) Alternative form of cloff (“allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight”) [(historical) An allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.]
