pleugh

British  

/ pluː, pluːx /

noun

1. a Scot word for plough

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pleugh

I am no clear if I can pleugh ony place but the Mains and Mucklewhame, at least I never tried ony other grund, and it wadna come natural to me.

From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Sir Walter Scott

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

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

My pleugh is now thy bairntime 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 worst.

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

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