pleugh

British  

/ pluː, pluːx /

noun

1. a Scot word for plough

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pleugh

While new-ca’d ky, rowte at the stake, An’ pownies reek in pleugh or braik, This hour on e’enin’s edge I take To own I’m debtor, To honest-hearted, auld Lapraik, For his kind letter.

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

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

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

There 's high and low, there 's rich and poor, There 's trades and crafts enew, man; But, east and west, his trade 's the best, That kens to guide the pleugh, man.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

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