Definitions for haugh

haugh haugh

Spelling: [hahkh, hahf]
IPA: /hɑx, hɑf/

Haugh is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in haugh (aghhu).

Definitions for haugh

noun

  1. a stretch of alluvial land forming part of a river valley; bottom land.

Origin of haugh

before 900; Middle English halche, hawgh, Old English healh corner, nook

Examples for haugh

haugh, low-lying flat ground, properly on the border of a river, and such as is sometimes overflowed.

The great city of Babylon was built upon the haugh of a river.

They died in the bower, and were buried in the Dranoch-haugh (Stronach haugh, 3.3), near the bank of the river Almond.

Alluvial land by a stream was called halgh, haugh, whence sometimes Hawes.

Passing beyond it and its grounds, you arrived at Pardon Church haugh.

"A graund field o' barley," he says, and as sure as a 'm stannin' here, it wes the haugh field o' aits.'

"I will never set my foot inside the haugh," Rupert said, firmly.

At her marriage, your mother will of course live at the haugh with Sir William.

Not on the haugh near the modern road by the railway, but higher up the hill, in the grounds of Urrard House.

Some gipsy queen in haugh of the Tweed hath wooed thee out of thy affection for thy Isabel; and now thou askest what hath kept me.

Word Value for haugh
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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