English

Proper noun

Shaw

1. An English topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse.

Anagrams

• haws
• wash, Wash.

English

Alternative forms

• shawe (13th-17th centuries)

Noun

shaw ‎(plural shaws)

1. (dated) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, 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

Anagrams

• haws, wash, Wash.

Scots

Noun

shaw ‎(plural shaws)

1. A show.
2. (in the plural) shaws - The stalks and leaves of root vegetables.

Verb

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

1. To show.