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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

sheugh

Ye needna yoke the pleugh, Kirkyards will soon be till'd eneugh, Tak ye nae fear: They'll be trench'd wi' mony a sheugh, In twa-three year.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

“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 Gordon Stables

I incline to think that, like the "birk" in the ghost's garland, "They were not grown on earthly bank, Nor yet on earthly sheugh."

From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

He was a gash an' faithfu' tyke As ever lap a sheugh or dyke.

From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White

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 Robert Burns

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