bucht

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noun

A sheepfold, especially one in which to keep ewes at milking-time.

OriginScots bucht →
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Meanings

nounbucht (plural buchts)

plural buchts

  1. ScotlandA sheepfold, especially one in which to keep ewes at milking-time.

    Far over the braes by Upperhill where Ewan would be getting set in his clothes […] the sheep were baaing in their winter buchts.

    1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 150

Origin

  1. Scotsbucht
  2. Englishbucht

From Scots bucht, of uncertain origin.

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Anagrams

butch
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APA

bucht. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bucht

MLA

“bucht.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bucht. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bucht,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bucht.

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