Lexicographical Neighbors of Heuchs
Literary usage of Heuchs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"Haughs is the Scottish form of the English hocks, the hind part of the knee.
The kelpie grinned an eldrich laugh, And rubbed his heuchs upon his haughs. ..."
2. Raiderland: All about Grey Galloway, Its Stories, Traditions, Characters by Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Joseph Pennell (1904)
"I cannot remember ever having been tired. Yet from the heuchs above Port-o'-War-
ren, I can recall walking as far as ..."
3. Old Dundee, Ecclesiastical, Burghal, and Social, Prior to the Reformation by Maxwell, Alexander, F.S.A. Scotland (1891)
"... heuchs," because the eminence on which the Chapel stood was in great part
formed of gray stone which, when split into layers, was used as slates—a ..."
4. Prestonpans and Vicinity: Historical, Ecclesiastical and Traditional by P. McNeill (1902)
"... and thus concluded regarding idle days:— "And because the said coal hewers
and salters and other workmen within the coal heuchs within this kingdom doe ..."
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