0 (especially of the wind or sea) to make a long high or low sound while moving: --
1 the high or low long sound that something such as the wind or sea makes as it moves: --
Meerbrook sough is over four miles in length.
It could be done by hauling buckets of water up the shaft or to a sough (a tunnel driven into a hill to drain a mine).
The sough was 1100 yd long with 600 yd underground.
This sough was sited to provide drainage for as many mine works as possible in order to make its construction economic.
The adit or sough to provide drainage for the mine is over 4 mi long.
Ristaino sough to make them look as if they were east coast commuters all bundled up for winter.
This also helped spread the cost of digging the sough.
One sough would often drain more than one mine, since these were often very close, working the same vein of lead.
