haugh

Old English healh (“corner, nook”).

haugh (plural haughs)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
   • Sir Walter Scott

     On a haugh or level plain, near to a royal borough.

   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 46:

     The cattle had […] loved their life in the haughs of Echt, south there across the uncouthy hills was a world cold and unchancy.

From Old English healh.

• IPA^(key): /hɒx/
• (Southern Scotland) IPA^(key): /haf/

haugh (plural haughs)

1. A low-lying meadow in a river valley.