Faugh. Chiefly Sc. Also 9 north. fauf, fawf. ‘A single furrow, out of lea; also the land thus managed, Ang.’ (Jam.); = FALLOW sb. 2 and 3. Also attrib. faugh sheep, sheep fed on a fallow.
15[?]. The Scotish Field, in Percy’s Folio MS. I. 228.
| Then full boldlye on the broad hills we busked our standards, | |
| & on a faugh vs be-side. |
1641. H. Best, Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641 (Surtees), 17. Well happed sheepe are the best for an hard faugh. Ibid., 27. Our faugh sheepe doe not afforde soe fine a wooll.
1736. Ramsay, Sc. Prov. (1807), 16. Farmers faugh gar lairds laugh.
1792. G. S. Keith, in Statist. Acc. Scotl., II. 535. Their outfields and fauchs are rated at from 3s to 10s.
1794. R. Michie, ibid., X. 239. The faughs are a part of the outfield never dunged.
1876. Whitby Gloss., Fauf, a fallow.
1883. Almondbury Gloss., s.v. Fauf, A ‘potato fauf’ is when the land is ready for the sets, and also after the crop has been taken out.
