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• shaw
  shaw

  noun

  a small wood or thicket.
• Shaw
  Shaw

  noun

  Anna Howard, 1847–1919, U.S. physician, reformer, and suffragist, born in England.

shaw

¹ American  

[shaw] / ʃɔ /

noun

• shaws
  plural

1. Midland U.S. a small wood or thicket.

2. Scot. the stalks and leaves of potatoes, turnips, and other cultivated root plants.

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Shaw ² American  

[shaw] / ʃɔ /

noun

1. Anna Howard, 1847–1919, U.S. physician, reformer, and suffragist, born in England.

2. Artie Arthur Arshawsky, 1910–2004, U.S. clarinetist and bandleader.

3. George Bernard, 1856–1950, Irish dramatist, critic, and novelist: Nobel Prize 1925.

4. Henry Wheeler. Billings, Josh.

5. Irwin, 1913–84, U.S. dramatist and author.

6. Richard Norman, 1831–1912, English architect, born in Scotland.

7. Thomas Edward. Lawrence, Thomas Edward.

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Shaw ¹ British  

/ ʃɔː /

noun

1. Artie, original name Arthur Arshawsky. 1910–2004, US jazz clarinetist, band leader, and composer

2. George Bernard, often known as GBS. 1856–1950, Irish dramatist and critic, in England from 1876. He was an active socialist and became a member of the Fabian Society but his major works are effective as satiric attacks rather than political tracts. These include Arms and the Man (1894), Candida (1894), Man and Superman (1903), Major Barbara (1905), Pygmalion (1913), Back to Methuselah (1921), and St Joan (1923): Nobel prize for literature 1925

3. Richard Norman. 1831–1912, English architect

4. Thomas Edward. the name assumed by (T. E.) Lawrence after 1927

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shaw ² British  

/ ʃɔː /

verb

1. to show

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noun

1. a show

2. the part of a potato plant that is above ground

shaw ³ British  

/ ʃɔː /

noun

1. archaic a small wood; thicket; copse

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• shaws
  plural

Etymology

Origin of shaw

before 900; Middle English shawe, Old English sceaga, scaga; akin to shag ¹

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“You can see why luke shaw got a call from his old gaffer.”

From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2015

Shaquille O'Neal, who played for the Cavs last season, posted on Twitter: "I think brian shaw should get interviewed for that cleveland cavaliers job, he's really good."

From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2010

And hither, straight as merry men to their shaw, they had brought the great treasure of the morning.

From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell

The wild bird on the bough that sat    Forgot its merry song to sing; The wild hart running in the shaw    Forgot forthwith to leap and spring.

From Ermeline a ballad by George Henry Borrow

“I shaw him shpeak to a fellow in chocolate and gold livery.”

From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Showrunners Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw said the underlying inspiration for those moments came from seeing how their own friends experience work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

“There’s certain parts of yourself that cannot make it to the workplace,” Shaw said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Baptiste's absence left some British sprinters - including Olympic bronze medallist Charlie Dobson and Paralympic silver medallist Zac Shaw - without a designated coach before the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and European Championships in Birmingham.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

“I would say that the overwhelming majority of parents of students in our public schools find the agenda that Sonja Shaw is promoting to be terrifying,” Barrera said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

He thought about this kid he’d heard about, Reggie Shaw.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

General Cultivation.—As soon as the shaws appear the ground should be hoed between the rows, and if there is any fear of frost the shaws should be lightly moulded over.

From The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition by Sutton and Sons

Soon prowling came a wolf so gray,    And me up-taking in his jaws, He carried me with care away    Deep, deep into the forest shaws.

From The Verner Raven; The Count of Vendel's Daughter and Other Ballads by Thomas James Wise

The braes ascend, like lofty wa’s, The foamy stream deep-roaring fa’s, O’erhung wi’ fragrant spreading shaws, The birks of Aberfeldy.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

“I thought not, same as you, but Grimbal shaws we ’m wrong.”

From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

Braw braw lads on Yarrow braes, hills That wander thro' the blooming heather; But Yarrow braes nor Ettrick shaws woods Can match the lads o' Gala Water.

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson