Definition of Saugh

1. a willow tree [n -S] : SAUGHY [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saugh

saucisses
sauconite
sauerbraten
sauerbratens
sauerkraut
sauerkraut soup
sauerkraut soups
sauerkrauts
sauf
saufgard
saufgards
saufly
sauger
saugers
saugh (current term)
saughs
saught
saughy
sauks
saul
saule
saulge
saulges
saulie
saulies
sauls
sault
saults

Literary usage of Saugh

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... Tho undir wode bowe, And whan that be the mete saugh Tho he was glad ... saugh Gamelyn and Adam both Undir the wode shaw. ..."

2. The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: with an introduction by Thomas R by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1900)
"Tho saugh I in another place Stonden in a large space, Of hem that maken blody soun In ... That in hir tyme famous were To lerne, saugh I trumpe there. ..."

3. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1903)
"Yet saugh I brent the shippes hoppes- teres; The hunte strangled with the wilde ... Ther saugh I Dane, y-turned til a tree, I mene nat the goddesse Diane, ..."

4. The Forester's Guide and Profitable Planter: Containing a Practical Treatise by Robert Monteath (1824)
"SECTION XXL OF THE WILLOW TREE, OR saugh. THIS saugh wood is used in large ... For the above purposes, either red or white poplar, or any kind of saugh, ..."

5. The Silurian Rocks of Britain by Benjamin Nieve Peach, John Horne, Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1899)
"District of Penn-happle Glen, saugh Hill, ... Indeed the persistent isoclinal folding of the Llandovery grits and shales on saugh Hill and in ..."

6. The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Text with Illustrative Notes by Geoffrey Chaucer (1847)
"... saugh noon other remedy And for to chide, it nas but foly, Sith that the thing may not ... saugh ..."

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