sheugh

plural sheughs

1. IrelandScotlandA 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).

   2013 October 31, Frank McNally, “When Anglophone lines get crossed”, in The Irish Times, Dublin: Irish Times Trust, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2021

2. Northern IrelandScotlandcolloquialespecially coastalThe space between the buttocks.

   The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse.

3. IrelandcolloquialThe Atlantic Ocean; the sea.

   The Irish Sea is the little sheugh, the Atlantic is the big sheugh.