Cloff

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cloff \Cloff\ (kl[o^]f; 115), n. [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. [Written also {clough}.] --McCulloch.
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