Definitions for haughs

haughs haugh

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

Haughs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in haughs (aghhsu).

Definitions for haughs

noun

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

Origin of haughs

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

Examples for haughs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Word Value for haughs
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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