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groughs

groughs is the plural of grough.

Meaning of grough

Noun

grough (plural groughs)

  1. A natural channel or gully in a peat moor, sometimes very steep and deep, and through which water sometimes flows. (Compare hag.)
    • […] leaving you "pathless" in the middle of the moor. […] you step into the nearest grough […] after a hundred yards or so, the grough that you have so wisely chosen, now has sides of eleven feet high and according to your compass, has wandered off course and is now definitely not taking you in...2014 May 1, Pete Draper, Bivouacs and Other Nocturnal Wanderings, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 68

Questions about groughs

What is groughs the plural of?
Groughs is the plural of grough.

Words near groughs in the dictionary

  1. grouchy
  2. groud
  3. Groudle Glen
  4. grouds
  5. grough
  6. groughs
  7. Groulx
  8. grounation
  9. grounations
  10. ground
  11. ground agama

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