shawn.1
/ʃɔː/, U.S. /ʃɔ/, /ʃɑ/ Now archaic and dialect.
1. collective.1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. ii. 65 Compared with which European parks..are but paltry scrub and shaugh.in extended use.1721 A. Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 21 O'er shaws of coral and the pearly sands.
a. A thicket, a small wood, copse or grove.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > thicket, brake, or brush
shaw755
thicketa1000
thyvela1000
greavec1050
wood-shawc1275
boscagec1400
greenwood shawc1405
thickc1430
brakec1440
shaw of wood1462
queach1486
bush1523
tuft1555
bushment1587
bocage1644
cripple1675
virgult1736
bluffc1752
thick-set1766
sylvagea1774
thicket-maze1813
bosk1815
woodlet1821
rush1822
puckerbrush1867
755–7 in Birch Cartul. Sax. (1885) I. 258 Terra illa juxta silvam quam dicunt Tocca sceaga.
987 in Kemble Cod. Dipl. (1845) III. 229 Ðis syndon ða landgæmæro to Westwuda..of ðære hlywan suð onbutan færs scagan on ða dic [etc.].
a1200 Newminster Chartul. (1878) 75 Per has devisas, a rivulo propinquiore le Hangande-scauhe versus septentrionem.
a1200 Newminster Chartul. (1878) 75 Usque ad rivulum primo nominatum propinquiorem ab Hangandescawe.
a1300 Thrush & Night. xxi, in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 244 Hy beth briȝttore ounder shawe, Then the day, wenne hit dawe.
c1325 Orpheo 242 In somer he lyveth by hawys, That on hauthorne growth by schawys.
c1386 G. Chaucer Cook's Tale 3 Gaillard he was as Goldfynch in the shawe.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 333 Hou he to love untrewe was..And tok his lust under the schawe Ayein love and ayein his lawe.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2161 At a schaȝe syde.
c1400 Anturs of Arth. vi Þei..suwene to þe souerayne within schaghes schene [v.rr. undur the scha schene, in cleues so clene].
c1440 Bone Flor. 1504 Tymely as the day can dawe, He led her thorow a feyre schawe.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Fox l. 419 in Poems (1981) 20 Ane lytill fra this foirsaid vedowis hows, Ane thornie schaw thair wes of grit defence, Quhairin ane foxe..Maid his repair.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 54 Berdis shoutit in schaw with ther still notis.
1573 G. Harvey Schollers Loove in Let.-bk. (1884) 127 In the shawe there lurkes an ilfavorid padd.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 15 Paslay quhilke is situat amang cnowis, grene woodis, schawis, and forrest fair.
c1730 A. Ramsay Eagle & Robin 57 Straicht to the schaw he spred his wing.
1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) I. 159 In a Shave belonging to the Estate of Sir John Hales.
1787 R. Burns Let. 1 June (2001) I. 120 A new blawn plumrose in a hazle shaw.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 314 Saddle the gentleman's horse, and lead him..ahint the thorny shaw.
1849 A. R. Smith Pottleton Legacy xvi. 131 The wet cloggy footpaths through the shaws and copses.
b. In the same sense, shaw of wood (archaic); see also greenwood shaw at greenwood n. Compounds. Cf. wood-shaw n. (common in Middle English verse).
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > thicket, brake, or brush
shaw755
thicketa1000
thyvela1000
greavec1050
wood-shawc1275
boscagec1400
greenwood shawc1405
thickc1430
brakec1440
shaw of wood1462
queach1486
bush1523
tuft1555
bushment1587
bocage1644
cripple1675
virgult1736
bluffc1752
thick-set1766
sylvagea1774
thicket-maze1813
bosk1815
woodlet1821
rush1822
puckerbrush1867
a1400 Octouian 355 As he rood be a wodes schawe.]
1462 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) 95 An othir parcell o wod also cald the lewod on the estsid, and buttes atte northend apon a shaw o wod of the said William Tillyall, and atte estend apon the more.
1483 Cath. Angl. 334/1 A Schawe of wod, virgultum.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxix. 346 One night in Scotland in a shaw of wood by Silvermills.
2. spec. A strip of wood or underwood forming the border of a field. Cf. shaw v.1
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > belt or line of trees > serving as screen or border
shawa1563
screenc1660
snow-break1837
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > enclosed land or field > field systems > border or boundary of field
loaning-dike1383
hade?1523
shawa1563
rim1864
tree-limit1934
a1563 V. Leigh Moste Profitable Sci. Surueying (1577) sig. I ij What shawes, or good hedge~rowes of wood be about euery fence.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 331 A Shaw, a Wood that encompasses a Close.
1736 J. Lewis Hist. Isle Tenet (ed. 2) 38 Shave, a small Copse of Wood by a Field Side.
1798 J. Middleton View Agric. Middlesex 136 Divided into small inclosures by high hedges and broad shaws.
1842 Darwin in F. Darwin Life & Lett. (1887) I. 320 A country..possessing a certain charm in the shaws, or straggling strips of wood, capping the chalky banks.
1859 Luard in Archaeologia Cantiana 2 6 There had been a shaw partly covering the place where we were digging.
1860 W. H. Ainsworth Ovingdean Grange 8 A large close, encompassed by a shaw, or fence of low trees.
3. (See quot. 1813.)
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > brow
browa1500
shaw1813
1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake Notes 377 Shaw..likewise..denotes the snout, or brow of a hill; but the part so denominated is always understood to be..broad at the base, and contracted to a point above.
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shawn.2
/ʃɔː/, U.S. /ʃɔ/, /ʃɑ/, Scottish English /ʃɔ/ Scottish.
The stalks and leaves of certain plants, esp. potatoes and turnips.
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the world > plants > part of plant > head or heart > [noun] > green parts > of vegetables
wisome1688
wizle1688
shaw1801
1801 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 412 I..made trials as to the effects of cutting the haum, or shaw, as it is commonly called in Scotland, at different stages of its growth.
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 258 The shaws or tops of the plants being removed.
1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake i. viii. 71 But mine was made of ane humloke schaw, And a stout stallion was he.
1851 Rural Cycl. IV. 178 Shaw, the haulm of potatoes, beans, and similar plants.
1887 A. S. Swan Gates of Eden xv. 202 The potato fields, with only heaps of sodden shaws and the long, newly-filled pits to tell of what had been.
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shawn.3
/ʃɔː/, U.S. /ʃɔ/, /ʃɑ/, Scottish English /ʃɔ/ Scottish.
(See quot. 1844.)
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1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 163 The fore legs [of oxen] are usually farther apart than the hind, but the hind at times, when the shaw or cod is large and fat, is as much and even more apart.
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† shawv.1
Obsolete.
transitive. To fence or border (a field) with a shaw n.1 2.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > surround with trees
wood1538
shaw1610
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. ii. 49 Collaterage Actiue, as siding, furrowing, balking,..hedging or shawing, immounding, impayling [etc.].
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. ii. 49 Compound Contiguall Boundage is more significant, as side-haying, head~shawing, &c.
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shawv.2
/ʃɔː/, U.S. /ʃɔ/, /ʃɑ/, Scottish English /ʃɔ/ Scottish.
transitive. To cut off the tops of (potatoes, turnips, etc.).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing fruit and vegetables > prepare fruit and vegetables [verb (transitive)] > remove tops
shaw1882
1882 J. Walker Sc. Poems 86 She maun shaw the frosty neeps.
1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags lvi I heard the horrible crunch as of one that shaws frosty cabbages with a blunt knife.
1895 W. C. Fraser Whaups of Durley iv. 43 All were busy..shawing turnips.
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