shaw – English noun declension

English noun forms of shaw

Noun: shaw
Singularshaw
Pluralshaws

Sample 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 (All this heard Sir Lamorak, and on the morn Sir Lamorak took his horse and rode unto the forest, and there he met with two knights hoving under the wood-shaw) [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XII, 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 (Then said Sir Kay: I require you let us prove this adventure. I shall not fail you, said Sir Gaheris. And so they rode that time to a lake that was that time called the Perilous Lake, and there they abode under the shaw of the wood) [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XXXIX, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:]
  • The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws, / And grasses in the mead renew their birth, [1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, V, lines 1-2:]
  • 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. [1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 35:]

Etymology

From Old English sċeaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (“forest, wood”), whence Danish skov (“forest”). Doublet of scaw. See: Old English Nouns 'sceaga', Old Norse Nouns 'skógr', Danish Nouns 'skov'.