Middle English Dictionary Entry
shau(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | shau(e n. Also shagh(e, shaȝe, sha(we, sawe, (?error in cpd.) scahw- & (in names) shag(e, shahe, shaye, shiaghe, shæ, scau, scawe, scagh, sca(u)he, scahae, skawe, skaig, sauwe, sagh(e, sag, sæ, sehawe, sewe. |
| Etymology | OE sceaga, scaga, LOE (place name) saga; N names in sc- and sk- may show either the N substitution of [sk] for [š] or the influence of ON: cp. OI skage or skōgr (for the latter of which see ME scough n.).] |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. scough n.
1.
(a) A wood or forest; a grove; a thicket; at a ~ side, at the edge of a forest; ~ of (the) wod, a wodes ~; under (the) ~, beneath the foliage of a wood, in the shade; in thickets; also, under the earth, in hell [quot.: a1450]; under (the) shaues, in the woods; wod ~, q.v.; (b) ~ wort, the common fumitory Fumaria officinalis; (c) in place names; (d) in surnames.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1300 Thrush & N.(Dgb 86)124 : Wimmen..beþ briȝttore ounder shawe Þen þe day wenne hit dawe.
- c1330(?a1300) Guy(2) (Auch)p.590 : An helme he hadde..In þe frunt stode a char-bukel ston As briȝt as ani sonne it schon Þat glemes vnder schawe.
- a1350 Opon a somer (LdMisc 108)17 : Raches..stalken vnder schawe, schatereden in schade.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)178 : So to schote vnder þe schawes scharplyche he lerned.
- (1375) Award Blount in ORS 7205 : Item, certeyn londis, Shawys, Grovys, Crofts, Wodys..yildyng by the yere, x s.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Co.(Manly-Rickert)A.4367 : A prentis whilom dwelled in oure citee..Gaillard he was as goldfynch in the shawe.
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)452 : For hit watz brod at þe boþem, boȝted on lofte..a hous as hit were, A nos on þe norþ syde..Bot al schet in a schaȝe þat schaded ful cole.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)11.159 : Þow suxt þe sonne som tyme for cloudes May nat shyne ne shewe on shawes on erthe.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)2161 : Gawayn..Schowuez in bi a schore at a schaȝe syde.
- a1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)34/2 : War þis winter oway wele wald I wene, Þat somer suld schew him in schawes ful schene.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)221 : Alholy Mankynne To helle but I wynne, In bale is my bynne And schent vndyr schawe.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4382 : Þe breth as of bawme blawis in oure noose, Þat ilk sensitife saule mast souorly delyte, As in þe woddis for to walke vndire wale schawis.
- (1462) Doc.Finchale in Sur.Soc.695 : William Tillyall has sold..an othir parcell o wod..and buttes atte northend apon a shaw o wod of the said William Tillyall.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)548/13 : They abode under the sawe of the wood.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)112a : A Schawe of wodde: virgultum.
- c1450(a1375) Octav.(2) (Clg A.2)355 : As he rood be a wodes schawe, He segh þer many a wylde outlawe.
- a1500 Awntyrs Arth.(Dc 324)67 : Withe solas þei semble..And suwene to þe souerayne within schaghes [Lamb: in shawis; Ir: undur þe scha; Thrn: in cleues] scheue.
- a1500 Orfeo (Hrl 3810)22/242 : Jn somer he lyueþ by hawys, Þat on hauþorne growith, by schawys, And in wynter by rote & rynde.
b
- a1325 Erf.Gloss.(Erf Amplon Q.351)160 : Fumitere: scahwwort [?read: schawwort].
c
- [ (1086) EPNSoc.2 (Bck.)135 : Hocsaga. ]
- (a1190) in Ekwall PNLan.128 : Rascahae.
- (1199) EPNSoc.2 (Bck.)42 : Eureshæ.
- (1200) EPNSoc.2 (Bck.)42 : Evershage.
- (c1200) EPNSoc.2 (Bck.)42 : Heuersæ. Euersag.
- (1218) EPNSoc.8 (Dev.)258 : Saghe.
- (1232) in Bowcock PNShrop.119 : Haselsewe.
- (1237-40) EPNSoc.2 (Bck.)135 : Hoggesaghe Hospitalariorum.
- (1246) EPNSoc.32 (West Riding Yks.)17 : Akescahe.
- (1250) EPNSoc.40 (Glo.)123 : Frompshahe.
- (c1271) in Bowcock PNShrop.119 : De Heselsehawe.
- (1285) EPNSoc.20 (Cum.)148 : Byrskawe.
- (1285) EPNSoc.27 (Der.)60 : Baggesauwe.
- (1288) EPNSoc.32 (West Riding Yks.)13 : Byrkinshaye.
- (1290) EPNSoc.20 (Cum.)148 : Birkscagh.
- (1292) in Ekwall PNLan.47 : De Birchynesagh.
- (1301) EPNSoc.5 (North Riding Yks.)149 : Skelderskayg'.
- (1310) EPNSoc.8 (Dev.)258 : Schyaghe.
- (1324) in Ekwall PNLan.83 : De Crounkeschawe.
- (1340) in Mawer PNNhb.& Dur.187 : Stainscau.
- (1345) EPNSoc.27 (Der.)60 : Bagschag.
- (1396) in Ekwall PNLan.99 : Lyghtshagh.
- (1405) EPNSoc.40 (Glo.)123 : Fromeshawe.
- -?-(a1200) Cart.Newminster in Sur.Soc.6675 : Per has divisas, a rivulo propinquiore le Hangande-scauhe versus septentrionem.
d
- (1241) in Löfvenberg ME Local Surnames178 : Agn. de la Schawe.
- (1256) Assize R.Nhb.in Sur.Soc.8880 : Ricardus de la Scawe.
- (1281) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)1.364 : Henry de la Shaghe.
- (1308) in Kristensson ME Top.Terms71 : Ad. del Kirkeschagh.
- (1327) in Kristensson ME Top.Terms80 : Joh. del Olrynshagh.
- (1341) in Löfvenberg ME Local Surnames178 : Rad. atte Shawe.
- (1373) in Löfvenberg ME Local Surnames178 : Rob. atte Shagh.
- (1470) Paston (EETS)1.417 : Edmund Shaa.