(n.) A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
(n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
(n.) An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.
Example Sentences:
(1) They say the footage shows Clough being pushed by police officers and struck on the head with a baton before he was pushed backwards to the ground and arrested.
(2) Later in the evening ITV1's documentary Clough pulled in 2.1 million viewers and a 10% share between 10.35pm and 11.50pm.
(3) The heavily-trailed programme was timed to coincide with the forthcoming Peter Morgan feature film The Damned United and featured exclusive interviews with family and friends of the late Brian Clough, which countered the portrayal of the outspoken football manager in the movie.
(4) Bert Clough Newbury, Berkshire • The first strike in recorded history occurred in ancient Egypt in the 12th century BC, when workers did not receive their rations.
(5) Alan Clough said he was relieved with the outcome of the court case, but had mixed feelings as he "would have liked to prove my innocence in court".
(6) After swatting aside Leeds 3-0 in the first round with goals from Franz Carr, Stuart Pearce and Garry Parker, they beat Aston Villa on penalties in the quarter-final after a 0-0 draw, surprise package Tranmere on penalties in the semi-final after a thrilling 2-2 draw with goals from Carr and Neil Webb, and Sheffield Wednesday, yes on penalties with Webb scoring the decisive spot-kick, after a goalless draw in the final - all this despite the absence of their manager, Brian Clough.
(7) And this yearning was exemplified by the men whose success came to tower over their respective cities: Shankly at Liverpool, Clough at Derby, Revie at Leeds.
(8) We have had one or two discussions, we are awaiting a decision and the owners will make that in good time,” Clough said at his pre-match press conference previewing his side’s League One trip to Bradford on Saturday.
(9) "It almost certainly was, though, at least in part a slight against Hodge, with whom Clough had a protracted battle over a new contract throughout the latter part of the season.
(10) The television presenter Charlie Webster has resigned as a patron of Sheffield United, saying: “I don’t believe a convicted rapist should go back to a club that I am patron of and should go back into the community to represent the community.” Nigel Clough said he was consulted over the Evans decision.
(11) The Sheffield United manager Nigel Clough has insisted that allowing the convicted rapist Ched Evans back to train with the club was not a precursor to offering him a deal.
(12) "Perhaps Forest's manager was relaxing his team before the fourth-round visit to Newcastle on February 11," reasoned Russell Thomas in the Guardian's match report but according to Jonathan Wilson's biography of Clough – Nobody Ever Says Thank You – there was more to the decision than that.
(13) Nigel Clough, the club’s manager, said this week it was for the owners – the millionaire businessman Kevin McCabe and Saudi prince Abdullah bin Mosaad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – to make the call.
(14) Bert Clough The common practice among FTSE 100 companies of paying CEOs around 140 times the amount paid to the average worker in the company has to be a huge hindrance to improving productivity, especially when workers are denied a share of the profits their efforts bring to the firms.
(15) Clough, though, said the club are yet to decide what to do.
(16) The names Matt Busby, Bob Paisley, Alex Ferguson and Brian Clough were put to the Italian in the context that he may soon be joining their illustrious company, but there has never been a European Cup-winning interim first-team coach.
(17) During a discussion about the possible transfer of the Nottingham Forest striker Teddy Sheringham, Sugar said in court that Venables had informed him that Forest's legendary manager Brian Clough "likes a bung".
(18) Penny and John Clough, parents of murdered Jane: 'The system is very biased towards the defendant.'
(19) Ferguson apart, one can think of only two – Herbert Chapman and Brian Clough – who have achieved more with separate clubs.
(20) Batons are drawn and Clough is punched by an officer in riot gear who is lashing out at demonstrators.
Crotch
Definition:
(n.) The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.
(n.) A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch.
Example Sentences:
(1) So if I get more than two people, and they don't punch each other in the crotch, it will all have been worthwhile.
(2) This may be prevented by the use of a six-point belt, where two crotch straps keep the lap belt in position.
(3) folds up its comedy deckchair, presses mute on the trombones and drapes a hand towel discreetly over Mark's crotch.
(4) The lurid crotch-grabbing routine has, admittedly, been refined.
(5) Two details distinguish this incision from other sutureless closures: the fulcrum in the crotch of the V provides easier access to the anterior chamber for instrument manipulation, and the termination of the scleral tunnel entry posterior to the cornea lessens the likelihood of corneal folds that may interfere with visualization during surgery.
(6) The one-time liberal favourite New York congressman – whose last name combined with a Twitter habit of posting crotch shots on the internet have been the punch line of a million late-night jokes – is desperate to relaunch his career.
(7) He cites the piano in Saint-Saëns's Aquarium – the universal soundtrack to magical moments in kids' films – as "total porn for the synaesthete" and confesses to a secret addiction to the crotch-low bass in Alexis Jordan's Happiness .
(8) She gestures helplessly towards her crotch and looks stricken.
(9) It appears, then, that Lululemon is using “anti-ball crushing” as a PR tactic, attempting to tap into an apparently fertile market of men who feel regular trousers are just too tight in the crotch.
(10) And if one of them is a kick in the crotch, and another is a naked man’s balls in the face, hey, who am I to complain?
(11) Instead, he suffered severe burns to his crotch and was subdued by fellow passengers and airline crew.
(12) Her hyper-sexualised set, which included rubbing her butt into Robin Thicke's crotch and getting extremely personal with an oversized foam finger, drew criticism from feminists for degrading her sex and from some pundits for "picking the pocket of black culture".
(13) asks her polo-necked, side-ponytailed psychopath as she places a cauliflower in front of her crotch.
(14) only one, oddly, has been deemed in need of pixellating: a clip from some football match or other in which Mark's crotch is reduced to a scrotal blur, like pâté smeared across a windscreen.
(15) The splash of red, rather than pouring halfway down the thigh, ends above the crotch and extends from hip to hip, with a small flare on each breast, avoiding entirely the butcher's apron effect.
(16) Dressed in a white dress trimmed with gold and a sparkling gold headdress, she sang her intro numbers with her knees bent and her head thrown back, undulating her crotch in a circular motion at the audience.
(17) But the fact that it is a chap who is murdering these naughty, naughty nuns (with details that border on the pornographic – lingering arse and crotch shots, sprays of blood over cleavage … you get the idea) makes the viewing a little uncomfortable.
(18) Too many cyclists are injured and killed on UK’s roads | Letters Read more The phrase in Walker’s article about cyclists dressed “as if for urban warfare” also deserves examination, as does a comparison between the lean, competition-hungry-looking, crotch-splitting bikes often used in the UK, and the comfy, sit-up-and-beg, luggage-carrying models mostly used in the Netherlands .
(19) We see you more as a figurehead.” As their meeting went on, Driberg’s eyes began drifting downwards, finally coming to rest on Jagger’s crotch.
(20) It's surprising the things you notice about people when they're not rubbing their buttocks against a middle-aged man's crotch.