sheugh

American  

[shookh] / ʃux /

Or sheuch

noun

1. a furrow, ditch, or trench.

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verb (used with object)

1. to plow or dig (a furrow, ditch, etc.).

Etymology

Origin of sheugh

First recorded in 1495–1505; N dialectal variant of sough ²

Example Sentences

He was a gash an’ faithful tyke, As ever lap a sheugh or dyke.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

“He was a gash and faithfu’ tyke As over lap a sheugh or dyke.”

From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Stables, Gordon

The creature grain’d an eldritch laugh, And says, “Ye need na yoke the plough, Kirkyards will soon be till’d eneugh, Tak ye nae fear; They’ll a’ be trench’d wi’ mony a sheugh In twa-three year.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

It neither grew in syke nor ditch,   Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o' Paradise,   That birk grew fair eneugh.

From Ballad Book by Bates, Katherine Lee

Trowth, Caesar, whiles they're fash'd eneugh; A cottar howkin' in a sheugh, Wi' dirty stanes biggin' a dyke.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh