shaw

1. (dated, dialectal) A thicket; a small wood or grove.Examples: "All this herd sire Lamorak / and on the morne sir lamorak took his hors and rode vnto the forest / and there he mette with two knyghtes houynge vnder the wood shawe"; "Thenne said sire kay I requyre you lete vs preue this aduenture / I shal not fayle you said sir Gaherys / and soo they rode that tyme tyl a lake / that was that tyme called the peryllous lake / And there they abode vnder the shawe of the wood"; "The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws, / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,"dateddialectal

2. (Scotland) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.Examples: "Up here the hills were brave with the beauty and the heat of it, but the hayfield was still all a crackling dryness and in the potato park beyond the biggings the shaws drooped red and rusty already."Scotland