bucht
See also: Bucht
English edit
Etymology edit
From Scots bucht, of uncertain origin.
Noun edit
bucht (plural buchts)
- (Scotland) A sheepfold, especially one in which to keep ewes at milking-time.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 150:
- Far over the braes by Upperhill where Ewan would be getting set in his clothes […] the sheep were baaing in their winter buchts.
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Etymology edit
Flemish variant of Dutch bocht.
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Noun edit
bucht m (plural buchten)
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Verb edit
bucht
- inflection of buchen:
Luxembourgish edit
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bucht
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Etymology edit
From Middle English bight, from Old English byht (“corner, bend”).
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Noun edit
bucht (plural buchts)