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

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 Burns, Robert

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

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 Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)

He was a gash an' faithfu' tyke, As ever lap a sheugh or dyke.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

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 Neilson, William Allan