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

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sheugh

Yon herd o' fat owsen that rout i' the glen, Sax naigies that nibble the lea; The kye i' the sheugh, and the sheep i' the pen, I'se gie a', dear Tibby, to thee.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

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 White, Adam

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

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 Burns, Robert

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