† fowsien.
Scottish. Obsolete.
A ditch; = fossé n.2
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rain?1523
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fowsie?1553
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?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) iii. l. 2072 in Shorter Poems (1967) 128 That gudly garth..Quhilk with a large fowsy [1579 Edinb. Fowsie]..Inueronyt wes.
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 175 His head was brokin..and he castin in the fowsea.
1617 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) IV. 536/2 Ditches and fusies.
1637 Adamson in R. Ford Harp Perthshire (1893) 5 Turning home we spared nor dyke nor fowsie.
1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) Fossa, a pit or fowsie.]
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