Shaw vs Shay - What's the difference?
shaw | shay |
(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.
As proper nouns the difference between shaw and shay
is that shaw is an english topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse while shay is .shaw
English
Alternative forms
* shaweNoun
(en noun)- The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws , / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,