shaw
See also: Shaw
English
Alternative forms
- shawe (13th-17th centuries)
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English sċeaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (“forest, wood”), whence Danish skov (“forest”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
shaw (plural shaws)
- (dated) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XXXIX, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX::
- Thenne said sire kay I requyre you lete vs preue this aduenture / I shal not fayle you said sir Gaherys / and soo they rode that tyme tyl a lake / that was that tyme called the peryllous lake / And there they abode vnder 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,
- (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.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon, 2006 (A Scots Quair), p.35:
Translations
thicket — see thicket
the leaves and tops of vegetables, as of potatoes, turnips, etc.
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Anagrams
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English schewen, schawen, scheawen, from Old English scēawian, from Proto-Germanic *skawwōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-.
Noun
shaw (plural shaws)
- A show.
Verb
shaw (third-person singular simple present shaws, present participle shawin, simple past shawt, past participle shawt)
- To show.
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