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

He putte his hand in, and took up a teyne Of silver fyn, and glad in every veyne Was this preest, when he saugh that it was so.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison

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

But when it seized the aged saugh, With the light locks of gray, It tore away its ancient root, And there the old trunk lay!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

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

But whan he saugh that specheles she lay, With sorwful voys and herte of blisse al bare, He seyde how she was fro this world y-fare!

From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey