Definition of Soughs. Meaning of Soughs. Synonyms of Soughs

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Definition of Soughs

Sough
Sough Sough, v. i. To whistle or sigh, as the wind.
Sough
Sough Sough, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A small drain; an adit. [Prov. Eng.] --W. M. Buchanan.
Sough
Sough Sough, n. A sow. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Sough
Sough Sough (?; 277), n. [Cf. Icel. s?gr (in comp.) a rushing sound, or OE. swough, swogh, a sound, AS. sw?gan to rustle. Cf. Surf, Swoon, v. i.] 1. The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring. The whispering leaves or solemn sough of the forest. --W. Howitt. 2. Hence, a vague rumor or flying report. [Scot.] 3. A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying. [Scot.] --Jamieson.

Meaning of Soughs from wikipedia

- helped spread the cost of digging the sough. Some soughs include branches to facilitate further drainage. Many soughs were dug throughout the 17th and 18th...
- Sough /sʌf/ is a hamlet, in the parish of Kelbrook and Sough, in Lancashire, England. Sough is located east of the main A56 road between Earby and Kelbrook;...
- Breathy voice (also called murmured voice, whispery voice, soughing and susurration) is a phonation in which the vocal folds vibrate, as they do in normal...
- mine), the fires heating vast quantities of water, p****ing through these soughs or adits becometh as hot as the bath at Bath". Dudley describes two rival...
- has a long history of lead mining. Lathkill Dale and Mandale mines and soughs are a rare and well-preserved example of mining activity dating from the...
- water. It could be done by hauling buckets of water up the shaft or to a sough (a tunnel driven into a hill to drain a mine). In either case, the water...
- and Lees Soughs. The Bates and Cromford Soughs drained mines on Cromford Moor – Bates Sough had reached the Dovegang by 1684. Hannage Sough drained the...
- Cromford because it had year-round supply of warm water from the Cromford Sough which drained water from nearby Wirksworth lead mines, together with Bonsall...
- Bradwell Spring 12.4 °C (54.3 °F) Crich, Meerbrook Sough, Leashaw Farm 17 °C (63 °F) Crich, Ridgeway Sough, Whatstandwell 14.1 °C (57.4 °F) Cross Bath, Bath...
- Kelbrook and Sough is a civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England. It has a po****tion of 1,008, and contains the village of Kelbrook...