saugh

American  

[soukh, sawkh, sahkh] / saʊx, sɔx, sɑx /

Or sauch

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. sallow.

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Etymology

Origin of saugh

before 1000; Middle English (north); Old English (Anglian) salh (variant of West Saxon sealh sallow ² )

Example Sentences

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saugh

And whan I had a while goon, I saugh a gardyn right anoon, Full long and broad; and every delle Enclosed was, and walled welle With high walles embatailled.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

For whan he saugh that she ne mighte dwelle, Which that his soule out of his herte rente, 1700 With-outen more, out of the chaumbre he wente.

From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey

M'Iver rode beside flowering saugh and alder tree through those old arches, now no more, those arches that were the outermost posterns where good-luck allowed farewells.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil

I saugh his slevës purfiled attë honde With grys, and that the fyneste of a londe.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

He rules easier wi' a saugh wand than wi' a sharp brand.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander