pleugh
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Here's me wi' a dizzen, and aye at the pleugh Sin' that nicht that the bairnie cam' hame!
From The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots by David Rorie
I sigh'd to see the flow'ry green Skaith'd by the ruthless pleugh; Likewise the bank aboon the burn, Where broom and hawthorns grew.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
I had sax owsen in a pleugh, And they drew a' weel eneugh: I sell'd them a' just ane by ane— Gude ale keeps the heart aboon!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
My pleugh is now thy bairn-time a', Four gallant brutes as e'er did draw; Forbye sax mae I've sell't awa, That thou hast nurst: They drew me thretteen pund an' twa, The vera warst.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
An’ farmers’ sarvants leeave ther pleugh, Callin ther maister black an’ blue, Whea for ther credit an’ ther neeame, Hed coonsel’d them te stay at heeame.
From Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect by John Castillo
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