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单词 haugh
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haughn.

Brit. /hɔːx/, /hɔː/, U.S. //, //, /hɔx/, /hɑx/, /haʊ/, Scottish English /hɔx/
Forms: Middle English halche, Middle English–1500s hawch, Middle English–1600s hawgh, Middle English– haugh (1700s haw); also in north. Engl. halgh as in Greenhalgh.
Etymology: apparently a phonetic descendant of Old English healh, halh ‘corner, nook’ (see hale n.1): compare Scots sauch, saugh < Old English sealh; Scots tauch = Middle English talȝ.
Scottish and north dialect.
a. A piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, forming part of the floor of the river valley.The original sense was perhaps ‘corner or nook (of land) in the bend or angle of the river’. A northern stream usually crosses and recrosses the floor of its valley, striking the base of the slope on each side alternately, and forming a more or less triangular ‘haugh’ within its bend, on each side in turn.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near river > [noun]
haleOE
haugh1487
strath1549
wartha1641
freshes1652
intervale1653
interval1684
riverfront1751
river bottom1752
creek-bottom1822
flat1852
814 Charter of Cœnwulf in Cod. Dipl. I. 257 Of þam gebyhte..oð cyninges healh.
967 Charter of Oswald in Cod. Dipl. III. 19 Se westra easthealh.]
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 336 In the hawch [1489 Adv. halche; 1616 Hart hawgh] of lyntoun-le.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. Prol. 22 Amyd the hawchis, and euery lusty vaill.
1525–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 108 Operantibus apud Rayls circa le haughe in Bearparke.
1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 330 Inundations of waters took away to the sea wholl large haughs full of shorn corne.
1704 Dict. Rusticum Haw..in the North, it signifies a green Plat in a Valley.
1786 R. Burns Poems 23 Let husky Wheat the haughs adorn.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 15 All the land, which has been occasionally flooded, time immemorial, is commonly called Haugh.
1809 Ld. Minto in Scott's Fam. Lett. (1894) I. 157 I..hope one day to see his wandering staff planted in some Teviot haugh.
1827 E. Mackenzie Descr. & Hist. Acct. Newcastle II. 743 Proposed to excavate the haughs above bridge.
b. attributive, as haugh-land.
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1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XII. 34 (Jam.) The haugh-ground is generally ploughed 3..years for oats.
1805 Trans. Soc. Arts 23 61 A quantity of haugh-land.
a1852 W. Macgillivray Nat. Hist. Dee Side (1855) 255 The stream..covers all the haugh lands with its turbid waters.
1867 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 I. iii. 88 The great haugh flats.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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