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cleuch, cleugh Sc.|kljuːx, kluːx|
Also 4, 6 clewch; 6 pl. clewis.
[Sc. form of clough q.v.: cf. beuch, eneuch, teuch = bough, enough, tough, etc.]
1. A gorge or ravine with precipitous and usually rocky sides, generally that of a stream or torrent. (Often entering into place-names, as Buccleuch, Caldcleuch, Wolfcleuch, etc.)
1375Barbour Bruce xvi. 386 In a clewch on the ta hand All his archeris enbuschit he. c1470Henry Wallace iv. 539 A cleuch thar was, quharoff a strenth thai maid. 1513Douglas æneis i. iv. 18 Ane wode abuife..with his rank bewis..castis ane plesand schaddow our the clewis. 1688Scott of Satchells Hist. Name Scot (1776) 37 (Jam.), And for the Buck thou stoutly brought To us up that steep heugh Thy designation ever shall Be John Scot in Buckscleugh. 1806J. Grahame Birds Scotl. 13. 1816 Scott Old Mort. xiv, The cleugh we were in was strait.
2. The precipitous side of a gorge; a steep and rugged descent.
1533Bellenden Livy ii. (1822) 204 At thair bakkis wes ane strait montane or cleuch [ii. 65 ab tergo erant clivi]. 1595Duncan App. Etymol., Rupes, prærupta petra, a craig or clewch. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. Table 82 Ane vnrewlie..horse, cariand ane man over ane cleuch, craig, or in water. 1816Scott Antiq. viii, ‘An ye fa' over the cleugh too’. |