beuk

During his tenure as ambassador, Davidson heard about the capture of the rare, giant catfish, pa beuk , the world's largest freshwater fish, in the Mekong River.

A Culinary Man of Letters Bruce Palling 2011

An 'aye whan I leuk in 't, I find there 's a beuk in 't

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

The Me-kong yields a gigantic fish, called by the natives the pla-beuk, which, when dried, forms an important element of the native dietary.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

They, an 'all grims an' signs an 'warnin's, be all invented by parsons an' illsome beuk-bodies an 'railway touters to skeer an' scunner hafflin's, an 'to get folks to do somethin' that they don't other incline to.

Dracula 1897

Janet was not altogether indulgent to these freaks, as she considered them, of Marget -- she had quite given up calling her Meg, "sin 'she took to the beuk so eident."

David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

"Ye're verra welcome to that or ony ither beuk I hae," replied Hugh, who began to feel already as if he were in the hands of a superior.

David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

-- Ay! I tellt ye I kent my beuk no that ill! "she added with some triumph; then resumed:" What the waur wad he or she or Sir

Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

And this aye takes the shape o 'some proposition or ither, generally i' the second beuk.

David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

"Do ye min 'what Bruce read that nicht ye saw him tak' something oot o 'the beuk?" he asked as he entered.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

_I_ saw that inscription and read it wi 'my ain een the verra day the lassie brocht the beuk, and kenned as weel's Mr

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864