Chiefly n.w. and w.midl. Also 6 sucke. [app. var. of SOCK sb.2 Cf. SOUGH sb.3] A ploughshare.
1499. [see SUCKING sb.].
1570. Levins, Manip., 185/1. Ye Sucke of a plow.
1588. Lanc. & Cheshire Wills (Chetham Soc.), II. 149. One sucke and one cultur.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. viii. 333/2. The Sough, or Suck, is that as Plows into the ground.
1735. Fam. Dict., s.v. Earth B bb/1. The Plowman … will not … be able to point the Suck where he would.
1798. Trans. Soc. Arts, XVI. 166. For hoeing, I have shares or sucks, in the shape of a trowel, which I can fix on the points of the drills.
1800. Rob. Nixon’s Chesh. Prophecies, Verse (1873), 41. Between the sickle and the suck, All England shall have a pluck.
1879. Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk.
1886. Cheshire Gloss.
