Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Cloff"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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