haugh

American  

[hahkh, hahf] / hɑx, hɑf /

noun

Scot.

1. a stretch of alluvial land forming part of a river valley; bottom land.

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haugh British  

/ hɑːf, hɑːk, hɒx /

noun

1. dialect a low-lying often alluvial riverside meadow

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Etymology

Origin of haugh

before 900; Middle English halche, hawgh, Old English healh corner, nook

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Example Sentences

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haugh

So he went with her to a haugh on Gallow-water, to meet, as she said, a gentleman there; but he saw only a large mastiff dog, “which amazed him.”

From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

From the haugh rises a steep acclivity, leading to the plateau where the house of Runraurie stood. 

From A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang

But this operation, of accumulated soil upon the stony bottom, has a period, at which time the river must return again upon its steps, and sweep away the haugh which it had formed.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) by James Hutton

"A graund field o' barley," he says, and as sure as a 'm stannin' here, it wes the haugh field o' aits.'

From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren

There ye behold the Blackadder wimpling along; the Whitadder curling round below you, and as far as ye can see—now glittering in a haugh, or buried among woody braes.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various

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