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shab | shaw |

As a noun shab

is (obsolete|uk|dialect) scabies.

As a verb shab

is (obsolete) to scratch; to rub or shab can be (obsolete|uk|dialect) to play mean tricks; to act shabbily.

As a proper noun shaw is

an english topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse.

shab

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) shabbe. See scab.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) scabies
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A scab.

    • Verb

    (shabb)
  • (obsolete) To scratch; to rub.
    • (Farquhar)

    Etymology 2

    See scab.

    Verb

    (shabb)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To play mean tricks; to act shabbily.
    • (Webster 1913)

    shaw

    English

    Alternative forms

    * shawe

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
  • *:
  • *:Thenne said sire kay I requyre you lete vs preue this aduenture / I shal not fayle you said sir Gaherys / and soo they rode that tyme tyl a lake / that was that tyme called the peryllous lake / And there they abode vnder the shawe of the wood
  • *1936 , (Alfred Edward Housman), More Poems , V, lines 1-2
    • The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws , / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,
  • (label) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon, 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p.35:
  • *:Up here the hills were brave with the beauty and the heat of it, but the hayfield was still all a crackling dryness and in the potato park beyond the biggings the shaws drooped red and rusty already.

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