haugh
See also: Haugh
English
Etymology
Old English healh (“corner, nook”).
Noun
haugh (plural haughs)
- (Scotland, Northern England) A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
- Sir Walter Scott
- On a haugh or level plain, near to a royal borough.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 46:
- The cattle had […] loved their life in the haughs of Echt, south there across the uncouthy hills was a world cold and unchancy.
- Sir Walter Scott
Scots
Etymology
From Old English healh.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɒx/
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Noun
haugh (plural haughs)
- A low-lying meadow in a river valley.