Meaning of Shaw | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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”

All this heard Sir Lamorak, and on the morn Sir Lamorak took his horse and rode unto the forest, and there he met with two knights hoving under the wood-shaw

“Thenne said sire kay I requyre you lete vs preue this aduenture / I shal not fayle you said sir Gaherys / and soo they rode that tyme tyl a lake / that was that tyme called the peryllous lake / And there they abode vnder the shawe of the wood”

Then said Sir Kay: I require you let us prove this adventure. I shall not fail you, said Sir Gaheris. And so they rode that time to a lake that was that time called the Perilous Lake, and there they abode under the shaw of the wood

“The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws, / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,”

“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.”

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