wecht

Then take that instrument used in winnowing the corn, which, in our country-dialect, we call a wecht; and go thro 'all the attitudes of letting down corn against the wind.

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

Then take that instrument used in winnowing the corn, which, in our country dialect, we call a wecht; and go through all the attitudes of letting down corn against the wind.

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 Robert Burns 1777

If ye pet your nose in aboot ony bolies harkenin ', you'll mibby get the wecht o' a bissam shaft on the end o't.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

I fand in ahent's for my umberell; but my chappie gaed his wa's gey quick, or I'd gien him the wecht o't across his nose.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

I dinna ken what use thae soshilist triangles an 'ither feelimageeries like hen's taes are genna be to you, but I howp they'll no' be learnin 'ye to gie fowk jimp wecht, or it'll juist be the ruin o' your trade.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

Then take that instrument used in winnowing the corn, which in our country dialect we call a “wecht, ” and go through all the attitudes of letting down corn against the wind.

Halloween 1909

I tell ye what, we need a man o 'wecht in oor kirk.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

Does a dowg pay for a sheep's heid when he gangs oot o 'the butcher's shop wi' yin atween his teeth, an 'a twa-pund wecht playin' dirl on his hench-bane?

The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

A 'never kent till that meenut hoo he hed a share in a'body's grief, an' carried the heaviest wecht o 'a' the Glen.

Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

A 'never kent till that meenut hoo he hed a share in a'body's grief, an' carried the heaviest wecht o 'a' the

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878