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shaws

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

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One serious freezing that blackens the shaws will delay and diminish the Potato crop.

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

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

In summer, when the shaws be sheen And leaves be large and long, It is full merry in fair forest To hear the fowlës song, 97 2.

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

"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

The green-wood shaws would be there another year,—Angus was here to-day.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various

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