haugh

Etymology

From Northern English dialectal and Scots haugh, from Northern Middle English *halgh, from Old English healh (“corner, nook”), from Proto-West Germanic *halh. Doublet of hale.

noun

1. (Scotland, Northern England, Ireland) A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
   The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west […] 1884, Alexander Maxwell, The History of Old Dundee
   The cattle had […] loved their life in the haughs of Echt, south there across the uncouthy hills was a world cold and unchancy. 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 46