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

So he went with her to a haugh on Gallow-water, to meet, as she said, a gentleman there; but he saw only a large mastiff dog, “which amazed him.”

From Witch Stories by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)

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 Hutton, James

They were na' buried in Meffen kirk-yard, Amang the rest o' their kin;10 But they were buried by Dornoch haugh, On the bent before the sun.

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

Neither has a slate been lifted, though about two yards of slating were stripped from the stables in the haugh, which you know were comparatively less exposed.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

I think, standing at any point in the great haugh of the Danube, I could see as much grain as all Scotland could produce.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill