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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In com.: Formerly, an allowance of 2 pounds in every 3 hundredweight on certain goods, after the tare and tret were taken, that the weight might hold out in retailing.
  • noun Now, in England, any deduction or allowance from the gross weight. Also written clough.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Formerly 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.

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