shaw

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A thicket

   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
   • The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws, / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,
2. 2

   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.
3. 3

   A kind of battle cry or warning.

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   1. 4

      Censored spelling of shit.

   2. 5

      An English topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse.

   3. 6

      A placename

The neighborhood