shaw

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small wood or thicket; the leafy tops of root vegetables

   The hares vanished into the shaw at the field's edge.

From Old English sceaga ('a small wood, thicket'), from Proto-Germanic *skagô; cognate with Old Norse skogr ('wood'). The 'leafy tops' sense is a related dialectal development.

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