Definition of "heugh" [heugh]

• A steep crag or cliff, especially one with overhanging sides (noun)
• A glen with steep, overhanging sides (noun)
• A steep excavation, especially a coal pit (noun)

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• "An ', tho' yon lowin 'heugh's thy hame, [flaming pit]"
• "They had now descended the broad loaning, which, winding round the foot of the steep bank, or heugh, brought them in front of the thatched, but comfortable, farm-house, which was the dwelling of"
• "I went into the grounds with my heart very high up on my bosom, not much put about at any human danger, let me add, for an encounter with an enemy of flesh and blood was a less fearsome prospect than the chance of an encounter with more invulnerable foes, who, my skin told me, haunted every heugh and howe of that still and sombre demesne of Dalness."