- shawe(13th–17th centuries)
FromOld Englishsċeaga,scaga. Cognate withOld Norseskógr(“forest, wood”), whenceDanishskov(“forest”).Doublet ofscaw.
shaw (pluralshaws)
- (dated, dialectal) Athicket; a smallwood orgrove.
1485,Sir Thomas Malory, chapterXII, inLe Morte Darthur, book IX:All this herd sire Lamorak / and on the morne sir lamorak took his hors and rode vnto the forest / and there he mette with two knyghtes houynge vnder the woodshawe
All this heard Sir Lamorak, and on the morn Sir Lamorak took his horse and rode unto the forest, and there he met with two knights hoving under the wood-shaw- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
1485,Sir Thomas Malory, chapterXXXIX, inLe Morte Darthur, book IX:Thenne said sire kay I requyre you lete vs preue this aduenture / I shal not fayle you said sir Gaherys / and soo they rode that tyme tyl a lake / that was that tyme called the peryllous lake / And there they abode vnder theshawe of the wood
Then said Sir Kay: I require you let us prove this adventure. I shall not fail you, said Sir Gaheris. And so they rode that time till a lake that was that time called the Perilous Lake, and there they abode under theshaw of the wood- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
1936,Alfred Edward Housman,More Poems, V, lines 1-2:The snows are fled away, leaves on theshaws, / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,
- (Scotland) Theleaves andtops ofvegetables, especiallypotatoes andturnips.
- Coordinate terms:straw,stover,trash
1932,Lewis Grassic Gibbon,Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published2006, page35:Up here the hills were brave with the beauty and the heat of it, but the hayfield was still all a crackling dryness and in the potato park beyond the biggings theshaws drooped red and rusty already.
the leaves and tops of vegetables, as of potatoes, turnips, etc.
FromMiddle Englishschewen,schawen,scheawen, fromOld Englishscēawian, fromProto-Germanic*skawwōną, fromProto-Indo-European*(s)kewh₁-.
shaw (pluralshaws)
- Ashow.
shaw (third-person singular simple presentshaws,present participleshawin,simple pastshawt,past participleshawt)
- Toshow.
