laigh

[ leykh ]

adjective

1. low ¹.

noun

1. a small valley or hollow.

Word History and Origins

Origin of laigh¹

1325–75; Middle English (Scots). See low ¹

Example Sentences

They found the Laigh Kirk to be a gloomy underground crypt into which light was but sparingly admitted by a few Gothic windows.

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On the larger farms in the Laigh Leicester sheep are kept all the year round, but in the uplands the Blackfaced take their place.

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Alluding to a scoffing ballad which was made on the admission of the late reverend and worthy Mr. Lindsay to the Laigh Kirk.

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But, as so often happened in like circumstances, this improvised ladder was “three ells too laigh.”

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Our road lies through the fertile "Laigh of Moray," one of the richest wheat districts in the Empire and as beautiful as fertile.

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