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

Example Sentences

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haugh

Presently I was down from the moorlands and traversing the broad haugh of a river.

From The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan, John

Soon he saw the dark outline of the camp on the haugh below, and in a few minutes arrived at the western port.

From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard

When the river has enlarged its bed by preying upon one side, whether of the mountain or the haugh, the water only covers it in a flood; at other times, it leaves it dry.

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

O. N. ou, Dan. ö: blout, bare; douff, dull; gowk, a fool; haugh, a knoll; loup, to 76run; louse, loose; nout, cattle; rowt, to roar; rowst, to cry out; stowp, a beaker; stour, a pole.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

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