saugh
or sauch
[soukh, sawkh, sahkh]
Origin of saugh
before 1000; Middle English (north); Old English (Anglian) salh (variant of West Saxon sealh sallow2)
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Mony a day hae I wrought my stocking and sat on my sunkie under that saugh.'
Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, IllustratedSir Walter Scott
MS. has—'He herd it wel, but he saugh it nought'; where Mr. Jephson inserts ne before saugh without any comment.
Saugh; it's an old Scotch word for willow, and comes from the French saule, I suppose.
Two KnapsacksJohn Campbell