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heronshaw

heronshaw is the alternative form of heronsew.

Meaning of heronsew

Noun

heronsew (plural heronsews)

  1. (dialectal) A heron (originally specifically when small or young).
    • As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / At an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of heronshaw

pluralheronshaws

Questions about heronshaw

What is heronshaw the alternative form of?
Heronshaw is the alternative form of heronsew.

Words near heronshaw in the dictionary

  1. Herons Creek
  2. heronsbill
  3. heronsbills
  4. heronsew
  5. heronsews
  6. heronshaw
  7. heronshaws
  8. heronshew
  9. heronshews
  10. heroogony
  11. heroon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heronshaw (page history and authors); heronsew (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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