heuch

I would the nag that brought Piercie Shafton hither had broken his neck over the highest heuch in Northumberland! —

The Monastery 2008

The road leading from Dalcastle towards the north-east, as all the country knows, goes along a dark bank of brush-wood called the Bogle-heuch.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 1802

-- I would the nag that brought Piercie Shafton hither had broken his neck over the highest heuch in Northumberland!

The Monastery Walter Scott 1801

I was distracted from my thoughts by the clumping of male feet on the stairs, accompanied by snorts and that peculiarly Scottish sort of giggling usually depicted in print-but by no means adequately-as "Heuch, heuch, heuch!

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

o 'the Gowan Brae,' ill be fit for cutting this two days, an 'they'll gang to the corn upo' the heuch instead.

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

"Gif ane wylde or head-strang horse, carries ane man [21] against his will over an craig, or heuch, or to the water, and the man happin to drowne, the horse sall perteine to the king as escheit.

The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888