† church-hawe Obs.
[f. haw, OE. haᵹa enclosure.]
A churchyard.
| c 1320 Seuyn Sag. 2625 (W.) Of the fir in the chirche-hawe. c 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. ¶727 By reson of the hooly place, as chirches or chirche hawes. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 65 [Calixtus] made a chirche hawe [cimiterium] at Rome. 1428 E.E. Wills 80 The chirchau of houre La[dy] of Harryngey. 1502 Arnolde Chron. 175 Al they..whiche violently drawen out of chirche, cloyster, or cherchehawe, any fugitif thider fled. |