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cloof

cloof is the alternative form of kloof.

Meaning of kloof

Noun

kloof (plural kloofs)

  1. (South Africa) A deep glen or ravine.
    • Forming the south boundary of the valley is a range of disrupted bushy hills, with intervening deep and rugged kloofs and ravines, which constituted the retreat of Jan Pockbaas and his rebel banditti.1901, William Thomas Black, The Fish River bush, South Africa, and its wild animals

Forms of cloof

pluralcloofs

Questions about cloof

What is cloof the alternative form of?
Cloof is the alternative form of kloof.

Words near cloof in the dictionary

  1. Clontarf
  2. Clontz
  3. Clontzes
  4. clonus
  5. clonuses
  6. cloof
  7. cloofs
  8. Cloolthpitch
  9. cloom
  10. cloomed
  11. clooming

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cloof (page history and authors); kloof (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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