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Haugh

//hɔː// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An English surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A low-lying meadow by the side of a river. Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland

    "The sheriff of the county of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, called the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, on a haugh, or level plain, near to a royal borough, […]"

Etymology

From Northern English dialectal and Scots haugh, from Northern Middle English *halgh, from Old English healh (“corner, nook”), from Proto-West Germanic *halh. Doublet of hale.

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