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CIDE DICTIONARY

cloff

CIDE DICTIONARY

cloffn. [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.  McCulloch.  [1913 Webster]

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