haugh

American  

[hahkh, hahf] / hɑx, hɑf /

noun

Scot.

1. a stretch of alluvial land forming part of a river valley; bottom land.

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haugh British  

/ hɑːf, hɑːk, hɒx /

noun

1. dialect a low-lying often alluvial riverside meadow

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Etymology

Origin of haugh

before 900; Middle English halche, hawgh, Old English healh corner, nook

Example Sentences

The actor, when our host met us returning from the haugh, did not fail to express his opinion that the new novel would be of this quality.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

The shepherd's slender strain, The country sounds again Awake in wood and plain, On haugh and hill.

From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Presently I was down from the moorlands and traversing the broad haugh of a river.

From The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan, John

And I've seen this verra burn, this bonny clear Callowa, lyin' like a loch for miles i' the haugh.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John

It lies just in the bosom of woods, too, in the centre of a lovely haugh, where the river soughs along, like the echo of the cooing of the cushats in the plantations.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various