cloff

English

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Noun

cloff (plural cloffs)

  1. (historical) An allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.

References
  • cloff in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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