▪ I. fauch, faugh, n. Chiefly Sc.
(fɑːx)
Also 9 north. fauf, fawf.
‘A single furrow, out of lea; also the land thus managed, Ang.’ (Jam.); = fallow n. 2 and 3. Also attrib. faugh sheep, sheep fed on a fallow.
| 15.. Scotish Field in Percy's Folio MS. I. 228 On the broad hills we busked our standards, And on a faugh vs beside. 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 17 Well happed sheepe are the best for an hard faugh. Ibid. 27 Our faugh sheepe doe not afforde soe fine a wooll. 1736 Ramsay Sc. Prov. (1807) 16 Farmers faugh gar lairds laugh. 1792 G. S. Keith in Statist. Acc. Scotl. II. 535 Their outfields and fauchs are rated at from 3s. to 10s. 1794 R. Michie ibid. X. 239 The faughs are a part of the outfield never dunged. 1876 Whitby Gloss., Fauf, a fallow. 1883 Almondbury Gloss. s.v. Fauf, A ‘potato fauf’ is when the land is ready for the sets, and also after the crop has been taken out. |
▪ II. † fauch, a.1 Sc. Obs.
Also 6 fawch.
[From the sense app. a variant of fallow a.1; the abnormal form may be due to association with fallow a.2, of which fauch (see next) is the normal representative in Sc.]
= fallow a.1 1.
| 1513 Douglas æneis viii. i. 74 A linȝe wattry garmond dyd hym vaill, Off colour fauch [L. glauco]. Ibid. xii. Prol. 108 Sum grece, sum gowlis..Blanchit or brovne, fawch ȝallow mony ane. |
▪ III. fauch, a.2 Chiefly Sc.
(fɑːx)
Forms: 8 faugh, 9 north. fauf, 6 fauch.
[Northern var. of fallow a.2 (:—OE. *fealh-).]
= fallow a.2
| 1513 Douglas æneis vi. vi. 68 Amang the fauch rispis harsk and star. c 1565 Lindsay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (1814) 499 It was in ane fauch eard and rid land quhair they moved for the tyme. 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 73/1 Faugh ground, or ground lying Faugh..the same to Fallow. 1721 Ramsay Wks. (1848) III. 56 He likes best To be of good faugh riggs possesst. 1876 Mid. Yorksh. Gloss. s.v. Fauf, ‘A fauf-field’, a fallow-field. 1876 Whitby Gloss. s.v. Fauf, To ‘lie fauf’ as when the soil is left to mellow. |
▪ IV. fauch, faugh, v. Chiefly Sc.
Also 6 faucht, 9 north. fauf.
[var. of fallow.]
trans. To fallow (ground).
| 15.. Aberdeen Reg. (Jam.), Sayand at [= that] hewald nocht eir nor faucht his land sa air in the yeir. 1703 Thoresby Let. to Ray 27 Apr. Yorksh. Wds. (E.D.S.), Faugh. 1799 A. Johnstone in Statist. Acc. Scotl. XXI. 139 A part of folding ground, enriched by the dung of sheep and of cattle..or fauched (a kind of bastard fallow) and manured by a little compost dung, bore three, four or five crops. 1810 Cromek Rem. Nithsdale Song (1880) 69, I brawlie can faugh yere weel-ploughed lea. 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss., Faugh, to fallow. 1883 Almondbury Gloss. s.v., They say a man is faufing his land when he is cleaning it with no crop on it. |