shaw

IPA: ʃˈɔ

(dated, dialectal) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, V, lines 1-2:
(Scotland) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
An English topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse.
A place name, including:
A town in Shaw and Crompton parish, Oldham borough, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9308).
A village near Newbury, Berkshire, England.
A village near Melksham, Wiltshire, England.
An unincorporated community in Neosho County, Kansas, United States.
A small city in Mississippi, United States.
A neighbourhood of Washington, D.C., United States.
A neighbourhood of St. Louis, Missouri.

Examples of "shaw" in Sentences

Shaw was a proponent of eugenics.
Shaw and McClain are no longer there.
Operated under the management of Shaw.
I don’t Dem Yankees an’ dat big gub’mint shaw is evil.
The contacts incriminate Shaw, but the context exonerates him.
Conseqentley, the US is tainted by this past support of the Shaw.
Harmonized by Martin Shaw, Accompaniment and Descant by Melville Cook.
As Banister has no notability outside his involvement in the Shaw trial.
Deep down, however, they know that Shaw is a cold, sad, unsociable loner.
Sadly, 1998 proved much of the same for Shaw, but without the rousing finish.
Shaw was a famous ventriloquist whose ambition was to make the perfect puppet.
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? admin Uncategorized anne shaw, the tyger, william blake
The general aspect of the country is that of the pastoral hills of the south of Scotland, forming, as is usual, bleak and wild farms, many of which had, at no great length of time from the date of the story, been covered with trees; as some of them still attest by bearing the name of shaw, that is, wild natural wood.