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Definition: Cloff
Cloff
\Cloff\ (kl[o^]f; 115), n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
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. [Written also
clough.] --McCulloch.
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