Shaw

Quick meaning: Shaw is a noun meaning (Scotland) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.

Meaning

(Scotland) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.

More Meanings

1. (fandom slang) A kind of battle cry or warning.
2. Censored spelling of shit.
3. (dated, dialectal) A thicket; a small wood or grove.

Example Sentences

The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws, / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,

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 wood shawe

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 the shaws drooped red and rusty already.

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 the shawe of the wood

Word Forms

• shaws
• shawe

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