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Cloff

Cloff\ (?; 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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