Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A furrow; a ditch; a gully.
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Examples
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"Has he to be put in the heather, and die maybe in a sheuch like a braxy ewe."
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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There had come over all my spirit a kind of dwam, so that at times my head seemed as if it were stuffed with wool; what mattered was of no account, even if it were a tinker's death in the sheuch.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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i 'the warld, every bit sheuch and burnie frae Gallowa' to Berwick.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907
bilby commented on the word sheuch
Scots - furrow, trench, also with slang meaning of the crack between the buttocks.
December 5, 2007