shaw

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
9
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ʃɔː/
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Definition of shaw

14 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (dated, dialectal)A thicket; a small wood or grove.
    “All this herd sire Lamorak / and on the morne sir lamorak took his hors and rode vnto the forest / and there he mette with two knyghtes houynge vnder the wood shawe”
    “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”
    “The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws, / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,”
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noun

  1. (dated, dialectal)A thicket; a small wood or grove.
    “All this herd sire Lamorak / and on the morne sir lamorak took his hors and rode vnto the forest / and there he mette with two knyghtes houynge vnder the wood shawe”
    “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”
    “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.
    “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.”

intj

  1. (slang)A kind of battle cry or warning.
  2. Censored spelling of shit.

name

  1. (countable, uncountable)An English topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse.
  2. (countable, uncountable)A placename
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  5. (countable, uncountable)A placename
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Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Old English sċeaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (“forest, wood”), whence Danish skov (“forest”). Doublet of scaw.

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