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Hernshaw vs Heronsew - What's the difference?

hernshaw | heronsew | Alternative forms |

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).

hernshaw

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • heronsew

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hernshaw, herneshaw (obsolete) * heronshaw * heronshew

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heron (originally specifically when small or young).
  • * c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales :
  • I wol nat tellen / of hir strange sewes / Ne of hir swannes / nor of hire heronsewes […].
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
  • As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / At an Herneshaw , that lyes aloft on wing […].
  • * 1805 , (Walter Scott), The Lay of the Last Minstrel :
  • 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 […].

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