(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.
Plough
Definition:
(n. & v.) See Plow.
(n.) A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow.
(n.) Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.
(n.) A carucate of land; a plowland.
(n.) A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
(n.) An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
(n.) Same as Charles's Wain.
(v. t.) To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field.
(v. t.) To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
(v. t.) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.
(n.) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
(v. i.) To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) Committing to ploughing a lone furrow without international agreement will damage our economy for little or no environmental benefit.
(2) Yet out-of-touch ministers have ploughed on regardless and claimed this is a 'triumph'.
(3) He would much rather money be ploughed into renewable energy sources.
(4) Child benefit is to be withdrawn from families as soon as one parent hits earnings of £44,000, but any tapering would be costly and require ploughing money back via child tax credits.
(5) The year before that, a video of a huge truck bomb ploughing into Salerno base in Khost province upended Nato reports of a relatively minor attack in which no one was killed.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A farm worker ploughing a field in Blackwater.
(7) He said the government would also plough money into the expansion of solar heating systems.
(8) The retailer said annual profits were likely to be poorer than expected as it had ploughed millions of pounds into a multimedia advertising campaign and taken on hundreds more vans to back a new delivery service before Black Friday, which falls on 27 November this year, but could not be sure how shoppers would respond.
(9) PMQs ploughs on regardless, in part because both sides know the weekly exchanges shape backbench morale, in part because one side will always think it gains an advantage over the other at such sessions, and in part because too many MPs are afraid of radical parliamentary change.
(10) Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye, pictured right, and his friend, Themba Tshabalala, are accused of killing four schoolboys after racing two Mini Coopers in the streets of Soweto only to lose control and plough into a group of children.
(11) This month the concessions are being worked at a breakneck pace, with giant tractors and heavy machinery clearing trees, draining swamps and ploughing the land in time to catch the next growing season.
(12) The housing crisis tells you a lot about British society: springing from a pathological middle class obsession with home ownership, the spike in houses prices is seen as earned, not incidental: most people now expect to make a profit on housing, and the fact people like the Blairs plough cash in as an investment should be a warning sign.
(13) Some £60m was ploughed into refurbishments in 2013 with plans to invest the same amount in the new financial year.
(14) The article also reported that "since leaving No 10, Brown has received more than £2m in fees and expenses — although this has all been ploughed back into his public and charitable activities".
(15) The latter are grown in fields on which oil-based fertilisers have been sprayed and which are ploughed by tractors that burn diesel.
(16) The committee is planning to plough the money saved into CCTV cameras for the park and will try again next year to raise the money for a display.
(17) After Unprofor approval,” says Van der Wind, “the fuel was delivered in Bratunac [the Bosnian Serb HQ outside Srebrenica] after the arrival of a logistical convoy.” The UN petrol was used, he says, to fuel transport of men and boys to the killing fields, and bulldozers to plough the 8,000 corpses into mass graves.
(18) Half will be ploughed back into frontline public services, leaving £6bn to fund a smaller tax-take from NI than under a fourth-term Labour government.
(19) Kevyn Orr will be gone in five and a half months, and so I’m able to, I think, deliver results on the lights, deliver results on EMS response times, deliver results on the blight, getting a little bit better at the snow-ploughing, and we’re just going to keep building on that.” Other notable moments: Detroit was slammed by heavy winter storms, making it the snowiest winter on record since 1880.
(20) All the profits from sales are ploughed back into providing skills training and setting up new retail outlets.