grieshochn.
/ˈɡriːʃəx/, /ˈɡriːʃək/, U.S. /ˈɡriʃək/, /ˈɡriʃəx/, Scottish English /ˈɡriʃəx/ Scottish.
‘Hot embers; properly those of peats or moss-fuel’ (Jamieson).
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1802 W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border I. Introd. p. lxxxiii Gang a' to your beds, Sirs, and dinna put out the wee grieschoch (embers).
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 349 I saw the leaves the limmers had lain on, and the ashes of them; by the same token, there was a pit greeshoch purning yet.
1881 M. Laffan in Macmillan's Mag. 44 386 From the grieshoch, which was as she had left it that morning, she perceived the faintest possible glow.
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