shaw
/ʃɔ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.08 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
intj
name
An English topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "All this herd sire Lamorak / and on the morne sir lamorak took his hors and rode vnto the forest / and there he mette with two knyghtes houynge vnder the wood shawe"
- "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"
- "The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws, / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,"
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: sceaga
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ʃɔ/
- British English: /ʃɔː/