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shaws

  • plural
    of shaw.
    shaw
    noun
    a small wood or thicket.

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

From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

"It shaws me ye can bribe; but I'm no to be bribit."

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

Potatoes.—Where there is a good crop of an early variety it should be lifted without waiting for the shaws to die down.

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

When shaws been sheen, and shradds full fair, And leaves both large and long, It is merry, walking in the fair forest, To hear the small bird’s song.

From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick

He raised his master in his arms,   And set him on his knee; And Robin's eyes beheld the skies,   The shaws, the greenwood tree.

From A Little Book of Western Verse by Eugene Field

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