laigh
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of laigh
1325–75; Middle English (Scots). See low 1
Example Sentences
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He hirpled up by the links and the lane, And chappit laigh in the back-door-stane.
From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Doon frae Jerus'lem a traveller took The laigh road to Jericho; It had an ill name an' mony a crook, It was lang an' unco how.
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George
He maun lout that has a laigh door.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
And a sair grief sitting at my foot, And a sair grief at my head; And dule to lay me my laigh pillows, And teen till I be dead.
From Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Out cam the gudeman, and laigh he louted; Out cam the gudewife, and heigh she shouted; And a the toun-neibours gather’d about it; And there he lay, I trow.
From The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself by Moir, David Macbeth
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