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Hough vs Haugh - What's the difference?

hough | haugh |

As nouns the difference between hough and haugh

is that hough is the hollow behind the knee or hough can be while haugh is (scotland|northern england) a low-lying meadow by the side of a river.

As a verb hough

is to hamstring or hough can be .

hough

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) h?h.

Noun

(en noun)
  • the hollow behind the knee
  • :* 1922': In the bright light, lightened and cooled in limb, he eyed carefully his black trousers, the ends, the knees, the '''houghs of the knees. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hamstring

    • Derived terms

    * hougher

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) howe, from (etyl) houe, from Old Low Franconian *houwa'' (compare Middle Dutch houwe), from *''houwan 'to hew'. More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • (Bishop Stillingfleet)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1748 , , K:LV
  • *:"Better the toiling Swain, oh happier far!
    • Perhaps the happie?t of the Sons of Men!
    Who vigorous plies the Plough, the Team, or Car;
    Who houghs the Field, or ditches in the Glen,
    Delves in his Garden, or ?ecures his Pen."

    haugh

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland, northern England) A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • On a haugh or level plain, near to a royal borough.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 46:
  • *:The cattle had […] loved their life in the haughs of Echt, south there across the uncouthy hills was a world cold and unchancy.
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