What does shaw mean?
Shaw means (dated, dialectal) A thicket; a small wood or grove..
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/ʃɔː/ · noun
(dated, dialectal) A thicket; a small wood or grove..
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
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
The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws, / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,
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.
Use shaw when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shaw means (dated, dialectal) A thicket; a small wood or grove..
Common synonyms include g b shaw, george bernard shaw.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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
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