saugh
Americannoun
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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O wae betide the frush saugh wand!And wae betide the bush of brier!It brake into my true love’s hand,When his strength did fail, and his limbs did tire.
From A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang
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 Geoffrey Chaucer
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 M. M. Pattison Muir
The nod of the saugh leaf on the banks was a salutation.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro
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 Geoffrey Chaucer
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