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Definition of 'haugh'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (Scotland|northern England) A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • On a haugh or level plain, near to a royal borough.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 46:
  • *:The cattle had […] loved their life in the haughs of Echt, south there across the uncouthy hills was a world cold and unchancy.
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