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.