haugh
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of haugh
before 900; Middle English halche, hawgh, Old English healh corner, nook
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I wish I could paint in the glitter on the blade of that reaping-machine down in the haugh there: see, it gleams every time the sun's rays hit it.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
On this haugh the tourist sees the tall standing stone which, since 1735 at least, has been known as “Dundee’s stone.”
From A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang
When the river has enlarged its bed by preying upon one side, whether of the mountain or the haugh, the water only covers it in a flood; at other times, it leaves it dry.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) by James Hutton
The castle, like its smaller predecessor of which this pile of building has taken the place, stands in a haugh or meadow at the foot of a hill, within a circle of mountain-tops.
From Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Sarah Tytler
Through the mist he could see two cows 'coming home' on the haugh below slowly and sedately to their milking.
From Border Ghost Stories by Howard Pease
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