Shaw meaning

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An English topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse.
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A thicket; copse.
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1856-1950; Brit. dramatist & critic, born in Ireland.
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(dated) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
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(Scotland) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
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Haws, wash, Wash.
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Origin of shaw

  • Old English sceaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (“forest, wood"), whence Danish skov (“forest").
    From Wiktionary

Shaw Sentence Examples

  • In law, Story, Parsons and Shaw.

  • Shaw, in America, independently of Joly, has interpreted the quaternion as a point-symbol.

  • Shaw, Mickel de l'Hospital and his Policy (London, 1905); and Eugene and Emile Haag, La France protestante (2nd ed., 1877 seq.).

  • Robert Barkley Shaw and George Hayward were the European pioneers of geography into the central dominion of Kashgar, arriving at Yarkand within a few weeks of each other in 1868.

  • Shaw subsequently accompanied Forsyth's mission in 1870, when Henry Trotter made the first maps of Chinese Turkestan.

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