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/ʃu/ · noun
(Ireland, Scotland) A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries..
The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh).
The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse.
The Irish Sea is the little sheugh, the Atlantic is the big sheugh.
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Sheugh means (Ireland, Scotland) A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries..
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The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh).
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