laigh

American  

[leykh] / leɪx /

adjective

1. low.

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noun

1. a small valley or hollow.

Etymology

Origin of laigh

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

Example Sentences

Jess was said to look not unkindly on Ebie Farrish, the younger ploughman who had recently come to Craig Ronald from one of the farms at the "laigh" end of the parish.

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

I'll ne'er lout sae laigh an' lift sae little.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

"Without, afore the stair steps, Or laigh on the cawsway stane, And there may lye Sir Dyr�, For ither bed we've nane."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various

He hirpled up by the links and the lane, And chappit laigh in the back-door-stane.

From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Thro’ the Lawlands, o’er the border, Weel, my babie, may thou furder: Herry the louns o’ the laigh countree, Syne to the Highlands hame to me.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert