[f. SOUGH sb.2]
1. trans. a. To face or build up (a ditch) with stone, etc. b. To make drains in (land); to drain by constructing proper channels. Also absol.
1688. Norris Papers (Chetham Soc.), 175. That all ditches which convey the water crosse the highway be soughed with wall stone, and well covered throughout.
1797. Trans. Soc. Arts, XV. 209. This lot of land, considered as enclosed, but not soughed.
1836. Hull & Selby Rlwy. Act, 6. To bore, dig, cut, embank and sough.
1868. C. W. Hatfield, Hist. Notices Doncaster, II. 285. Silver-street and French-gate were soughed in 1837–8.
2. intr. To reach, or get into, a sough.
1898. Daily News, 19 Feb., 9/2. Lang Syne again raced by, and was a meritorious winner as the hare soughed.
