▪ I. saugh, sauch Sc. and north.
(sɑx)
Also 4 salfe, 7–9 sauf, etc.: see E.D.D.
[repr. OE. salh (Anglian) = WS. sealh sallow n.]
= sallow.
| 1368 Durham Halm. Rolls (Surtees) 73 De Waltero Biscopp pro una salfe detent. prec. 18 d. 1472 Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 163 Plantatioun of treys that is to say eysses, osaris, and sauch. 1501 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scotl. II. 83 Item, to George Cambel, gardiner of Strivelin, to by sauchis and to set thaim, iiij Franch crouns. 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 120 Att Martymmasse..wee sette our foreman to cuttinge of white-wilfes, reade-wilfes, and saughs. 1786 Burns Auld Farmer's Salut. Mare x, Nae whip nor spur, but just a wattle O' saugh or hazel. a 1834 R. Surtees in G. Taylor Mem. (Surtees) 241 They made a bier of the birken boughs, Of the sauf and the espin gray. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 1178 Of the woods best adapted for the purpose, I may name the common saugh or willow. 1891 Atkinson Last of Giant Killers 132 Lower about the slacks were alders and saughs or sallows. |
† b. A rope made of twisted sallow-withes.
Obs.| 1508 Dunbar Flyting 245 Filling of tauch, rak sauch, cry crauch, thow art our sett. 1570 Satir. Poems Reform. xii. 56 For this foule deid ȝour seid man rak ane sauch. |
c. attrib., as
saugh slip,
saugh tree,
saugh woody (
= withy).
| 1842 J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 171 [For] screening the dunghill, *saugh slips may be planted,—or better, *saugh stobs, four feet long, may be driven into the ground. |
| 1513 Douglas æneis vii. xi. 73 Thair targettis bow thai of the lycht *sauch tre. 1548 Turner Names Herbes (E.D.S.) 70 Salix is called..in english a wylow tree, a salowe tree or a saugh tree. 1815 Scott Guy M. xxii, Did ye notice if there was an auld saugh tree that's maist blawn down. |
| a 1802 in Scott Minstrelsy II. 142 O wae betide the frush *saugh wand! |
| 1789 Burns To Dr. Blacklock vi, I hae a wife and twa wee laddies,..But I'll sned besoms—thraw *saugh woodies, Before they want. |
▪ II. saugh obs. form of
sough, channel.