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Meaning of haugh | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/hɔː/

Definitions

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

Examples

“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, […]”
“The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west […]”
“The cattle had […] loved their life in the haughs of Echt, south there across the uncouthy hills was a world cold and unchancy.”
“It was sung from the top of the oldest house in the burgh every June at the Common riding, which served both for a perambulation of the bounds of the common pastures or Haughs and to commemorate the young men of Harwick[.]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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