Meaning of Gruff | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of grough (“gully in a moor”).

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Equivalents

Examples

“[…] Yorkshire and Derbyshire, where [...] the ordinary sportsman has to go "gruffing," as it is called, to game game, i. e., stealing up the "gruffs" or gullies and undulations in the ground, and trying all the clumps of long old twisted heather and broken bogs. […] the open places on the moor, and thus driving the birds forward to deep lying bogs and "gruffs" […]”

“They found Uttley's body on the bottom of the gruff.”

“[…] the body […] was found in a 'gruff' or gully about three-quarters of a mile from the Poacher's Leap.”

“They roost [...] in peaty gruffs and drainage channels, and on moorland tracks and sheep- walks, […]”

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