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Definition of Spleuchan
1. n. A pouch, as for tobacco.
Definition of Spleuchan
1. Noun. (Scotland) A pouch, as for tobacco. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spleuchan
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spleuchan
Literary usage of Spleuchan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetry of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1897)
"spleuchan, (1) tobacco-pouch made of some sort of peltry ... mak his king's-hood
in a spleuchan,' i. 195. 6; (2) [equivocally], 'hurt her ..."
2. The Poetry of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1897)
"spleuchan, (1) tobacco - pouch made of some sort of peltry : 'Deil mak his
king's-hootl in a ... 6; (2) [equivocally], 'hurt her spleuchan,' ii. 45. 8. ..."
3. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"He hastened, not without a curse upon the intricacies of a Saxon breeches pocket,
or spleuchan, яя he called it, to deposit the treasure in his fob. ..."
4. Biggar and the house of Fleming by William Hunter (1862)
"Davie replied, ' I ken the spleuchan weel eneugh frae the look o't, ... The spleuchan
being unrolled, David's rude needlework was discovered, ..."
5. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1839)
"... in * King's-Hand — '' The second of the four stomachs of ruminating animals."
JAMIESON spleuchan — The Gaelic name of the Highlander's tobacco-pouch. ..."
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