Shaw vs Shawm - What's the difference?
shaw | shawm |
(label) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
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*: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
(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.
a mediaeval double reed wind instrument with conical wooden body
:* 1985': There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful '''shawm , and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked. — Anthony Burgess, ''Kingdom of the Wicked
As nouns the difference between shaw and shawm
is that shaw is a thicket; a small wood or grove while shawm is a mediaeval double reed wind instrument with conical wooden body.As a proper noun Shaw
is an English topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse.shaw
English
Alternative forms
* shaweNoun
(en noun)- The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws , / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,
