shaw

Definizione monolingua

shaw

tae shaw (third-person singular simple present shaws, present participle shawin, simple past shawt, past participle shawt)

1. To show.

shaw (plural shaws)

1. (dated) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book IX:

     And so they rode that tyme tylle a lake that was that tyme called the Perelous Lake, and there they abode under 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, as of potatoes, turnips, etc.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

Definizione dizionario shaw

Altri significati:

(dated) A thicket; a small wood or grove.