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sauch

British

/ sɔːx /

noun

a sallow or willow

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Etymology

Origin of sauch

C15: from Old English salh

Example Sentences

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They made a bier of the broken bough, The sauch and the aspine grey, And they bore him to the Lady Chapel, And waked him there all day.

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

Birk will burn be it burn drawn; sauch will sab if it were simmer sawn.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

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