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

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

From The Dog's Book of Verse by Various

“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

It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o’ Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh.

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick

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

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