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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

Example Sentences

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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

By the bright green shaw The oxen striding The heavy plough draw, The soil dividing.

From The Gold Horns by George Henry Borrow

The valley was as full o’ forges and fineries as a May shaw o’ cuckoos.

From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Arthur Rackham

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

“Metro Mining is profitable, generating free cash with a strong balance sheet and will finish the year with a cash balance of A$60 million-A$70 million,” says Shaw.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Last week, Dream president Morgan Shaw Parker said they were “finalizing details” on where the team’s home games will be played during the Finals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Prof Shaw thinks potential benefits include better long-term planning around rolling-stock and timetables, and the removal of "the compensation merry-go-round", where train companies and Network Rail argue about whose fault a delay was.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Later Shaw became an officer in the all-white Second Massachusetts Infantry, seeing action at Cedar Mountain and Antietam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

One of them, Bobby Joe Shaw, bumped Valentine so hard she almost dropped her books.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

But if you was to say there was more things after dark in the shaws than men, or fur, or feather, or fin, I dunno as I’d go farabout to call you a liar.

From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Arthur Rackham

When shaws beene sheene, and shradds full fayre, And leaves both large and longe, Itt is merrye walkyng in the fayre forrest To heare the small birdes songe.

From The Book of Old English Ballads by Hamilton Wright Mabie

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

From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

Off his fists A wanton widow Leezie was, As cantie as a kittlin; lively But och! that night, amang the shaws, woods She gat a fearfu' settlin'!

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson

Strip the belly off ’e, an’, bone for bone, a lean man like me shaws as fair as you.

From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts