saugh

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English

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Etymology

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See Scots sauch.

Noun

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saugh (plural saughs)

  1. (archaic) willow
    • 1836, Robert Monteath, The Forester's Guide and Profitable Planter, Etc. Third Edition[1]:
      There are a very great many kinds of saugh, or willow tree, and Holland is said to be the native place, and great nursery of them
    • 1857, Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641[2]:
      After that we have cutte our wilfes and saughs []
    • 2021, Nancy Mitford, Highland Fling:
      There are some parts of Scotland where it would be impossible to find a saugh for miles that had not a grassy mound before it, telling a bloody tale.
  2. A small burn or creek.
    • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 4 p. 59:
      By Morgany doe drive her through her watry saugh (marginal gloss) A kind of Trench.
    • 1889, George Muirhead, The Birds of Berwickshire, page 188:
      The nest, which is composed of dry bents lined with hair, is generally built close to the ground, among rank vegetation or rushes, but I have sometimes found it in low willow bushes in a saugh bog.
    • 1897, Alan Reid, The Bards of Angus and the Mearns, page 83:
      oo the lambies bleat an' play owre the green and grassy haugh, An' in wayward gambols stray doon the burn beside the saugh;

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Verb

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saugh

  1. past of seen