English
shaw
see also: Shaw
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ʃɔː/
Noun

shaw (plural shaws)

  1. (dated) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:11.39?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter xxxix], in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:
      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
    • 1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, V, lines 1-2
      The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws, / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,
  2. (Scotland) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
    • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon, 2006 (A Scots Quair), p.35:
      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.
Translations
Shaw
Proper noun
  1. Surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse.
  2. A place name, including:
    1. A town in Shaw and Crompton parish, Oldham (OS grid ref SD9308).
    2. A village near Newbury.
    3. A village near Melksham.
    4. An unincorporated community in Neosho County, Kansas.
    5. A small city in Mississippi, USA.
    6. A neighbourhood in Washington, D.C., USA.
    7. A neighbourhood in St. Louis, Missouri.


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