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

Down a short space in front, a green undulating haugh between, roll the waters of the Tweed, with a bright clear radiance to which the brightest burnished silver is but as dimness and dross.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

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

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

Through the mist he could see two cows 'coming home' on the haugh below slowly and sedately to their milking.

From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard