/hɔː/, /hɔːx/
OriginFrom Northern English dialectal and Scots haugh, from Northern Middle English *halgh, from Old English healh (“corner, nook”), from Proto-West Germanic *halh. Doublet of hale.
- Ireland, Northern-England, ScotlandA low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
“The sheriff of the county of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, called the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, on a haugh, or level plain, near to a royal borough, […]”
“The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west […]”
“The cattle had […] loved their life in the haughs of Echt, south there across the uncouthy hills was a world cold and unchancy.”
Formshaughs(plural) · Haughs(plural)
Source: Wiktionary