saugh
saugh noun: willow.
Noun
saugh (plural saughs)
- willow
- There are a very great many kinds of saugh, or willow tree, and Holland is said to be the native place, and great nursery of them1836, Robert Monteath, The Forester's Guide and Profitable Planter, Etc. Third Edition
- After that we have cutte our wilfes and saughs[…]1857, Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641
- A small burn or creek.
- By Morgany doe drive her through her watry saugh (marginal gloss) A kind of Trench.1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 4 p. 59
- The nest, which is composed of dry bents lined with hair, is generally built close to the ground, among rank vegetation or rushes, but I have sometimes found it in low willow bushes in a saugh bog.1889, George Muirhead, The Birds of Berwickshire, page 188
Examples of saugh in a sentence
- There are some parts of Scotland where it would be impossible to find a saugh for miles that had not a grassy mound before it, telling a bloody tale.2021, Nancy Mitford, Highland Fling:
- oo the lambies bleat an' play owre the green and grassy haugh, An' in wayward gambols stray doon the burn beside the saugh;1897, Alan Reid, The Bards of Angus and the Mearns, page 83:
Forms of saugh
| plural | saughs |
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Origin of saugh
See Scots sauch.
Questions about saugh
- What does saugh mean?
- Saugh means willow.
- How do you use saugh in a sentence?
- There are some parts of Scotland where it would be impossible to find a saugh for miles that had not a grassy mound before it, telling a bloody tale.
- What part of speech is saugh?
- Saugh is a noun.
- What is the plural of saugh?
- The plural of saugh is saughs.
Words near saugh in the dictionary
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