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▪ I. haugh Sc. and north dial.|hɑx, hɑf|
Forms: 4 halche, 4–6 hawch, 4–7 hawgh, 5– haugh (8 haw); also in north. Engl. halgh as in Greenhalgh.
[app. a phonetic descendant of OE. healh, halh ‘corner, nook’ (see hale n.2): cf. Sc. sauch, saugh:—OE. sealh; Sc. tauch = ME. talȝ.]
A piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, forming part of the floor of the river valley.
The original sense was perh. ‘corner or nook (of land) in the bend or angle of the river’. A northern stream usually crosses and recrosses the floor of its valley, striking the base of the slope on each side alternately, and forming a more or less triangular ‘haugh’ within its bend, on each side in turn.
[814Charter of Cœnwulf in Cod. Dipl. I. 257 Of þam ᵹebyhte..oð cyninges healh. 967Charter of Oswald Ibid. III. 19 Se westra easthealh.] 1375Barbour Bruce xvi. 336 In the hawch [v.r. halche, hawgh] of Lyntoun-le. 1513Douglas æneis xiii. Prol. 22 Amyd the hawchis, and euery lusty vaill. 1525–6Durh. MS. Cell. Roll, Operantibus apud Rayls circa le haughe in bearparke. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 330 Inundations of waters took away to the sea wholl large haughs full of shorn corne. 1726Dict. Rust. (ed. 3), Haw..in the North it signifies a green plot of Ground in a Valley. 1786Burns Scotch Drink iii, Let husky Wheat the haughs adorn. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 15 All the land, which has been occasionally flooded, time immemorial, is commonly called Haugh. 1809Ld. Minto in Scott's Fam. Lett. (1894) I. 157, I..hope one day to see his wandering staff planted in some Teviot haugh. 1827Mackenzie Hist. Newcastle II. 743 Proposed to excavate the haughs above bridge.
b. attrib., as haugh-land.
1794Statist. Acc. Scot., Lanark. XII. 34 (Jam.) The haugh-ground is generally ploughed 3..years for oats. 1805Trans. Soc. Arts XXIII. 61 A quantity of haugh-land. a1852Macgillivray Nat. Hist. Dee Side (1855) 255 The stream..covers all the haugh lands with its turbid waters. 1873Burton Hist. Scot. I. iii. 81 The great haugh flats.
▪ II. haugh
obs. f. hoe, haw int.1 and n.4 |