Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
sauch . - noun Same as
sough . - noun An obsolete preterit of
see .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. sing. of
see .
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Examples
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Which that the knyght saugh sittynge in the grene.
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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CHAPTER II Ther saugh I first the derfe ymaginyng Of jelonye ...
Madam Will You Talk Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1967
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Their seas then the hazel an 'saugh-shaded stream.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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A certain jollity was shed by it upon our tired brigade, though all but the leaders (who slept in a tent) were resting in the snow on the banks of the river, with not even a saugh-tree to give the illusion of a shelter.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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Irishman dwelling with Englishmen, was directed to have a bow of his own height made of yew, wych-hazel, ash, or awburne -- that is, laburnum, which is still styled "awburne saugh," or awburne willow, in many parts of Scotland.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829 Various
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The nod of the saugh leaf on the banks was a salutation.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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I walked with a mind painfully downcast, and it was not till I reached a little hillock a good distance from the Inns at Tynree, a hillock clothed with saugh saplings and conspicuously high over the flat countryside, that I looked about me to see where I was.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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Of cronycles whiche (that) I saugh last, [66] or the lines at the end of _Roberd of Cisyle_,
Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos
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M'Iver rode beside flowering saugh and alder tree through those old arches, now no more, those arches that were the outermost posterns where good-luck allowed farewells.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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The sound of the river far off in the shallows among the saugh-trees came on
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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