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

See Examples For:

sheugh

He was a gash an’ faithful tyke, As ever lap a sheugh or dyke.

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

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 Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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 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 English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various