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Þ þ (thorn)
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shau(e
n.
Additional spellings:
shaue
51 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A wood or forest; a grove; a thicket;
at a shau side
, at the edge of a forest;
shau of (the) wod, a wodes shau; under (the) shau
, beneath the foliage of a wood, in the shade; in thickets; also…
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