Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crag; a precipice; a rugged steep; a glen with steep overhanging sides.
- noun A coal-mine; a pit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. & Prov. Eng. A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides.
- noun Scot. A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scotland A steep
crag orcliff , especially one with overhanging sides - noun Scotland A
glen with steep, overhanging sides - noun Scotland A steep
excavation , especially a coal pit
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Examples
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An ', tho' yon lowin 'heugh's thy hame, [flaming pit]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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They had now descended the broad loaning, which, winding round the foot of the steep bank, or heugh, brought them in front of the thatched, but comfortable, farm-house, which was the dwelling of
The Black Dwarf 2004
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[666] Maxwell-heugh, is a village on a height to the south of the Tweed, nearly opposite the eastern part of the town of Kelso.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Penniel-heugh: and it is hoped that the etymological derivation of that word now to be hazarded will not imply in the etymologist the credulity of a Monkbarns.
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I went into the grounds with my heart very high up on my bosom, not much put about at any human danger, let me add, for an encounter with an enemy of flesh and blood was a less fearsome prospect than the chance of an encounter with more invulnerable foes, who, my skin told me, haunted every heugh and howe of that still and sombre demesne of Dalness.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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He therefore requested to be put ashore, and, from the top of a heugh, or broken bank, enjoyed the scene much more to his satisfaction.
Chapter XXVI 1917
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"Spindlestone," a tall crag on which the young knight hung his bridle, when he went further on to seek the worm in the "heugh," is still to be seen, but the huge trough from which the worm was said to drink has been destroyed.
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They had now descended the broad loaning, which, winding round the foot of the steep bank, or heugh, brought them in front of the thatched but comfortable farm-house which was the dwelling of Hobbie Elliot and his family.
The Black Dwarf 1898
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I ran to the point by the narrow square opening into the soft sandstone rock, and lying low on my face I could see a lugger close in under the heugh of Boreland, where she would never have dared to go, save that the wind was off shore and steady.
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I was to wait there on the edge of the heugh till one came and called me by name.
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