saugh
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of saugh
before 1000; Middle English (north); Old English (Anglian) salh (variant of West Saxon sealh sallow 2 )
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Major Macleod had from his youth stalked the wary stag, and every saugh and birch and alder in our course was made to yield us its cover.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
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
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
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 James Baldwin
He rules easier wi' a saugh wand than wi' a sharp brand.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
