hush

verb

No English definition recorded for this entry.

No English definition recorded for this entry.

Pronunciation: /hʌʃ/ / /hʊʃ/

Etymology: Unclear; possibly onomatopoeic.

Water which has been used to clear the soil off of some (area of) rock or ore.
“[…] the hush from the lead mines on the moors near that place enters the Arkle, and the stream below suffers materially, the fishing being of little good;”
“The great cause of the scarcity of fish in this river is without doubt the "hush" coming down from the lead mines in the upper waters. […]”
A part of a mine or quarry where ore is to be, or has been, excavated by an artificial flow of water.
“[…] lead ore occurs abundantly in the upper crust of the earth, and this phrase would have been quite applicable to the early finds of shoad-stones of lead ore in Weardale, to the importance of which the scars of the "hushes" that still furrow the fell-sides bear conclusive evidence.”
“After the first hush miners loosened the rock in the floor of the hush with picks and crow bars … a torrent of water was sent down which swept and tore the loosened stuff over the grate, trapping much of the ore that was being moved. In this method a hush could be used for over a century and could grow […]”

Etymology: Unclear; possibly onomatopoeic.

To rush, to gush.
“On the fluir, bluid an punch now hush't leyke a stream, […]”
“[…] water, far down below, roaring and hushing over the rocks, […]”
To send forth a rush of water over (some ground) so as to clear off the soil and other materials overlying, and thus uncover or separate out, ore.
“[…] worn its Chanel so deep in some Part of its Course as to work upon some mineral Substance, which gives it the Colour of Water hushed from Lead-mines, and is so strong as to tinge the River Derwent […]”
“The earliest method of searching for lead ore was by collecting the water in dams and hushing the surface of the ground where metalliferous veins existed.”