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haugh

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12
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12
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/hɔː/
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/hɔː/ · /hɔːx/

Definition of haugh

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland)A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
    “The sheriff of the county of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, called the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, on a haugh, or level plain, near to a royal borough, […]”
    “The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west […]”
    “The cattle had […] loved their life in the haughs of Echt, south there across the uncouthy hills was a world cold and unchancy.”
    “It was sung from the top of the oldest house in the burgh every June at the Common riding, which served both for a perambulation of the bounds of the common pastures or Haughs and to commemorate the young men of Harwick[.]”
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noun

  1. (Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland)A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
    “The sheriff of the county of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, called the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, on a haugh, or level plain, near to a royal borough, […]”
    “The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west […]”
    “The cattle had […] loved their life in the haughs of Echt, south there across the uncouthy hills was a world cold and unchancy.”
    “It was sung from the top of the oldest house in the burgh every June at the Common riding, which served both for a perambulation of the bounds of the common pastures or Haughs and to commemorate the young men of Harwick[.]”

name

  1. An English surname.

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Etymology

From Northern English dialectal and Scots haugh, from Northern Middle English *halgh, from Old English healh (“corner, nook”), from Proto-West Germanic *halh. Doublet of hale.

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