How to pronounce “cloff”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (historical, shipping) 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.
• [Adjective]
• lame, limpy, crippled
• (figurative) defective, weak, insufficient

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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