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Shew vs Shaw - What's the difference?

shew | shaw |

As a verb shew

is (label) or shew can be (label) (show).

As a noun shew

is (label) a show.

As a proper noun shaw is

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

shew

English

Verb

  • (label)
  • * , Genesis 12:1
  • * , Ruth 2:19
  • * {{quote-book, year= 1774, by= (Le Page Du Pratz), title= The History of Louisiana: Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries that Lie on Both Sides of the River Mississippi: with an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate, and Products, url= http://books.google.com/books?id=zEoUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA42, chapter= The Governor surprized the Natchez with seven hundred Men., publisher= T. Becket
    • , location= London, page= 42, passage= I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.}}
  • * 1786 : Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page xiv.
  • * 1843 : '', Book 2, Ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century
  • * 1884 : '', Sec. 4, ''Concerning the Women
  • *
  • * 1921 : Marcel Proust translated by C. K. Moncrieff, Swann's Way , page 1.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (label) (show)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A show.

    • Anagrams

    * English irregular simple past forms English irregular verbs

    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.

    • Anagrams

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