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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.

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan

I tell ye what, we need a man o' wecht in oor kirk.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

It wes na cannie for a man o' his wecht, besides bein' a married man and a kirk member, and a' gied him a hearin'.

From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Maclaren, Ian

The wecht of him's no easy put doon.

From Mr. Punch in the Highlands by Various