sough
IPA: saʊ
noun
- A murmuring sound; rushing, rustling, or whistling sound.
- A gentle breeze; a waft; a breath.
- A (deep) sigh.
- (Scotland, obsolete) A vague rumour.
- (Scotland, obsolete) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.
- A small drain; an adit.
- A hamlet in Kelbrook and Sough parish, Pendle borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD9045).
verb
- To make a soft rustling or murmuring sound.
- To drain.
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Examples of "sough" in Sentences
- This sough was long with underground.
- Meerbrook sough is over four miles in length.
- This also helped spread the cost of digging the sough.
- If the mine sump is lower, water must be pumped up to the sough.
- A sough is an underground channel for draining water out of a mine.
- A 'sough' is an underground channel for draining water out of a mine.
- I knew it was the "sough" of the sea against the sides of the vessel.
- In the "sough" of the torrent, we heard their sighs -- in its roar, the groans of their departing spirits!
- Whether they sounded their strange note was not known, for the "sough" of the waterfall still echoed in the ears of the canoemen, and they could not hear aught else.
- Whether they sounded their strange note was not known, for the "sough" of the waterfall still echoed in the ears of the canoe-men, and they could not hear aught else.
- Over and over the same round his thoughts went, till, worn out with anxiety and watching, and lulled unconsciously by the soft "sough" of the wind in the pines, he fell asleep.
- There was the "sough" of the sea, as it came swelling up the gorge; the "whish" of the wind, as it impinged upon the crests of the ridges; and the "swish" of the sand as it settled round them.
- Daybreak arrived without the black pilot having heard any sound, beyond that of the breeze rustling against the sail of the _Catamaran_ or the hollow "sough" of the water as it surged against the empty casks lashed along their sides.
- The word sough, now pronounced suff, was formerly called sow; whence the iron fused and received into a sough acquired the name of sowmetal; and that received into less soughs from the former one obtained the name of pigs of iron or of lead; from the pun on the word sough, into sow and pigs.
- The word sough, now pronounced suff, was formerly called sow; whence the iron fused and received into a sough acquired the name of sowmetal; and that received into less soughs from the former one obtained the name of pigs of iron or of lead; from the pull on the word sough, into sow and pigs.
- As the sailor terminated his speech with this terrible emphasis, he started into an upright attitude, and listened with all his ears for another utterance of that harsh monotone that, borne upon the breeze and rising above the "sough" of the disturbed water, could easily be distinguished as the _voice of a man_.