shaw

IPA: ʃˈɔ

noun

  • (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.
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Examples of "shaw" in Sentences

  • Shaw was a proponent of eugenics.
  • Shaw and McClain are no longer there.
  • Operated under the management of Shaw.
  • 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.

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