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

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

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 Katherine Lee Bates

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

He was a gash and faithfu' tyke As ever lapt a sheugh or dyke.

From The Dog's Book of Verse by Various

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

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson

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