Hernshaw vs Heronsew - What's the difference?
hernshaw | heronsew | Alternative forms |
A heron (originally specifically when small or young).
* c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales :
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
* 1805 , (Walter Scott), The Lay of the Last Minstrel :
Hernshaw is an alternative form of heronsew.
As nouns the difference between hernshaw and heronsew
is that hernshaw is while heronsew is a heron (originally specifically when small or young).heronsew
English
Alternative forms
* hernshaw, herneshaw (obsolete) * heronshaw * heronshewNoun
(en noun)- I wol nat tellen / of hir strange sewes / Ne of hir swannes / nor of hire heronsewes […].
- As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / At an Herneshaw , that lyes aloft on wing […].
- Pages, with ready blade, were there, / The mighty meal to carve and share: / O'er capon, heron-shew , and crane, / And princely peacock's gilded train […].