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

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