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Cloff   Listen
noun
Cloff  n.  (Written also clough)  Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.






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"Cloff" Quotes from Famous Books



... Heah's Katie waitin'. Where'll we hab de table? Why don't you pay 'tention to Katie? Where's de table-cloff? Oh, oh, if she puts it down on dat twee-bench Wobin will eat ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry

... continued the military-looking man, bending his handsome eyes on the bay captain, as if there was a business secret between them, and peering at once mischievously and nobly; "he makes the quotient to suit. He leaves the suttle large and never stints the cloff." ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend



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