Wecht

Then take that instrument used in winnowing the corn, which, in our country-dialect, we call a wecht; and go thro 'all the attitudes of letting down corn against the wind. ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)

Then take that instrument used in winnowing the corn, which, in our country dialect, we call a wecht; and go through all the attitudes of letting down corn against the wind. ❋ Robert Burns (1777)

If ye pet your nose in aboot ony bolies harkenin ', you'll mibby get the wecht o' a bissam shaft on the end o't. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)

I fand in ahent's for my umberell; but my chappie gaed his wa's gey quick, or I'd gien him the wecht o't across his nose. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)

I dinna ken what use thae soshilist triangles an 'ither feelimageeries like hen's taes are genna be to you, but I howp they'll no' be learnin 'ye to gie fowk jimp wecht, or it'll juist be the ruin o' your trade. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)

Then take that instrument used in winnowing the corn, which in our country dialect we call a “wecht, ” and go through all the attitudes of letting down corn against the wind. ❋ Unknown (1909)

I tell ye what, we need a man o 'wecht in oor kirk. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Does a dowg pay for a sheep's heid when he gangs oot o 'the butcher's shop wi' yin atween his teeth, an 'a twa-pund wecht playin' dirl on his hench-bane? ❋ Unknown (1887)

A 'never kent till that meenut hoo he hed a share in a'body's grief, an' carried the heaviest wecht o 'a' the Glen. ❋ Various (1878)

A 'never kent till that meenut hoo he hed a share in a'body's grief, an' carried the heaviest wecht o 'a' the ❋ Ian Maclaren (1878)

Gien she cam near him ohn luikit for, they said, he wad gie a great skriech, and rin as fast as his wee weyver (spider) legs cud wag aneth the wecht o ''s humpie -- an' whiles her after him wi 'onything she cud lay her han' upo ', they said -- but I kenna. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

He was in the true sense what Chalmers used to call a “man of _wecht_.” ❋ John Brown (1846)

He had a great look of the Right Honorable Edward Ellice, and had much of his energy and _wecht_; had there been a dog House of ❋ John Brown (1846)

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It's as muckle as his ain wecht in fou 'vermin! "she cried. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)

"What mortal man can do," Wearyworld said, "we're doing: ay, and mair, but she's auld wecht, and may find bilbie in queer places. ❋ Unknown (1898)

"I gaed up the stair o 'a wee brick hoose nearly tumlin' doon wi 'its ain wecht -- a perfect rickle o' brick -- an 'chappit. ❋ Unknown (1887)

[Did you] [see] Wecht-guy wechting [hard]? ❋ Wecht-guy (2010)