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

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

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

The actor, when our host met us returning from the haugh, did not fail to express his opinion that the new novel would be of this quality.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

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

The operations of the river, upon the plain, thus increase at the same time the height and fertility of the haugh.

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