Meaning of saugh | Babel Free

Definitions

1. willow
   archaic
2. A small burn or creek.

Examples

“There are a very great many kinds of saugh, or willow tree, and Holland is said to be the native place⟳, and great nursery of them”

“After that we have⟳ cutte our wilfes and saughs[…]”

“There are some parts of Scotland where it would be impossible to find⟳ a saugh for miles that had not a grassy mound before it, telling a bloody tale.”

“By Morgany doe drive⟳ her through her watry saugh (marginal gloss) A kind of Trench.”

“The nest, which is composed of dry bents lined with hair, is generally built close⟳ to the ground, among rank vegetation or rushes, but I have⟳ sometimes found it in low willow bushes in a saugh bog.”

“oo the lambies bleat an' play⟳ owre the green and grassy haugh, An' in wayward gambols stray doon the burn beside the saugh;”

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