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

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

It lies just in the bosom of woods, too, in the centre of a lovely haugh, where the river soughs along, like the echo of the cooing of the cushats in the plantations.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various

Mackay feared that Dundee would occupy this plateau, and that the fire thence would break up his own men on the haugh below. 

From A Short History of Scotland by Lang, Andrew

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

She looked very beautiful as she stepped up on the sloping sward above the haugh, with the pale moonlight just lighting her airy dress, and her face all sad and careworn.

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)