shaw

See also Shaw

English

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Alternative forms

• shawe (13th-17th centuries)

Etymology

Old English sceaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (“forest, wood”), whence Danish skov (“forest”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ʃɔː/

Noun

shaw (plural shaws)

1. (dated) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book IX:

     And so they rode that tyme tylle a lake that was that tyme called the Perelous Lake, and there they abode under the shawe of the wood.

   • 1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, V, lines 1-2

     The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws,

     And grasses in the mead renew their birth,

2. (Scotland) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 35:

     Up here the hills were brave with the beauty and the heat of it, but the hayfield was still all a crackling dryness and in the potato park beyond the biggings the shaws drooped red and rusty already.

Translations

thicket — see thicket

the leaves and tops of vegetables, as of potatoes, turnips, etc.

Anagrams

• haws, wash, Wash.

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Scots

Noun

shaw (plural shaws)

1. A show.
2. (in the plural) shaws - The stalks and leaves of root vegetables.

Verb

tae shaw (third-person singular simple present shaws, present participle shawin, simple past shawt, past participle shawt)

1. To show.