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Shaw

//ʃɔː// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An English topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A placename; A place in England, United Kingdom:; A village in Shaw cum Donnington parish and Newbury parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS red ref SU4868). countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A placename; A place in England, United Kingdom:; A town in Shaw and Crompton parish, Oldham borough, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD9308). countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A placename; A place in England, United Kingdom:; A hamlet in Oxenhope parish, City of Bradford, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE0234). countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A placename; A place in England, United Kingdom:; A village in Melksham Without parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8865). countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A placename; A place in England, United Kingdom:; A suburb and ward in west Swindon, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1185). countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A placename; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Neosho County, Kansas, United States. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A placename; A place in the United States:; A small city in Bolivar County and Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A placename; A place in the United States:; A neighbourhood of Washington, D.C., United States. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    A placename; A place in the United States:; A neighbourhood of St. Louis, Missouri. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    A thicket; a small wood or grove. dated, dialectal

    "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"

  2. 2
    The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips. Scotland

    "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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old English sċeaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (“forest, wood”), whence Danish skov (“forest”). Doublet of scaw.

Etymology 2

From shaw.

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