- although resembling a ceilidh dancer's enthusiastic exclamation, this word typically denotes a precipice, a cliff, a steep bank, or a glen or ravine with overhanging sides. It is sometimes spelled heuch and is derived from Old English hōh meaning 'heel'. In Scots place-names, it often combines with names for birds, as in Corbie Heugh in the Borders (from Scots corbie 'crow, raven'), Earn's Heugh near Aberdeen (from Scots earn 'eagle') and Ravensheugh in Lothian.
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