haugh
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of haugh
before 900; Middle English halche, hawgh, Old English healh corner, nook
Example Sentences
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Presently I was down from the moorlands and traversing the broad haugh of a river.
From The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan, John
Alluvial land by a stream was called halgh, haugh, whence sometimes Hawes.
From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest
I wish I could paint in the glitter on the blade of that reaping-machine down in the haugh there: see, it gleams every time the sun's rays hit it.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
In this state, the haugh is always deepening or increasing its soil, and has its surface heightened.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) by Hutton, James
When again there is a depth of soil accumulated upon the haugh, the surface only is protected by the vegetable covering.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) by Hutton, James
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