sheugh
/ʃʌx
/noun Scottish & Irish
A ditch or furrow: they probably threw it in a sheugh...
- I began to think about the time I had jumped the sheugh when I was only eight.
- The still will be cleaned and dumped behind a sheugh.
- At some point, I will lose my balance and topple off and over the edge and into the sheugh.
Origin
Early 16th century: variant of sough 'pool, ditch', of obscure origin.