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Shaw vs Weald - What's the difference?

shaw | weald |

As nouns the difference between shaw and weald

is that shaw is a thicket; a small wood or grove while weald is a wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; often used in place names.

As proper nouns the difference between shaw and weald

is that shaw is an English topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse while Weald is the physiographic area in south-east England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.

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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    weald

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; often used in place names.
  • * Tennyson
  • Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald', / And heard the spirits of the waste and ' weald / Moan as she fled.

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