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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Hauch, Hawch, n.¹ Also: hawh-, (h)auche, haucht, hawcht, haugh(e, hawgh. [Later forms of Halch n.] A haugh.(a) c 1240 Liber Calchou 244.
Cum pratis, pasturis, et hawhes 1375 Barb. xvi. 336.
In the hawch of Linton-le He gart thame mak a fair maner 1512 Selkirk B. Ct. MS. fol. 18.
And alsua the landis and hawcht betuix the dik ... and water is common alsua 1513 Doug. xiii. Prol. 23.
Amyd the hawchis … The recent dew begynnys doun to scaill 1554 Liber Dryburgh 290.
The wther akir lyand in the west hawch 1578 Glasgow Chart. II. 559.
The said Lunyngis hawcht, betuix the loyne on the northt and Clyd on the southt 1595 St. A. Test. II. 226.
The tyme scho wes furth in the hawch(b) 1457 Exch. R. VI. 324.
De firmis terrarum de le Quenys Hauche 1464 Peebles B. Rec. 152.
The balyais … has set and to ferm lattyn … the Quhyt Auche … dorand thair willis 1475 Ib. 175.
A fre lonyng throw the said auche 1533 Boece viii. vii. 262 b.
That euery Scottis man abil for were … suld convene in ane hauch besouth Calidon wod 1567 Liber Dryburgh 396.
To the bigging of the buttis in the hauch 1588 Prot. Bk. A. Lawson 169.
Thrie riggis of … landis lyand contigue in the schott callit the hauchis 1607 Stirling B. Rec. I. 118.
Ane grite number of pure, baithe within and without the toun in the hauche 1627 Rep. Parishes 37.
And of ane uthir hauch of land belanging to the myline 1650 Strathbogie Presb. 140.
Ther [thay] layed of and designed ane vther litle hauch of the forsaid landis(c) 1505 Reg. Cupar A. I. 260.
Tua [acres] tane out of the est end of the Kemphil haucht 1546 Fam. Innes 115.
Extending … to the deid dreich of Hervis haucht 1554 Reg. Cupar A. II. 118.
The tway acris … nixt adjacent to the Galloraw haucht(d) 1596 Reg. Great S. 194/2.
Ane stane infixt and set on the brayheid on the haugh callit the Barhaugh 1638 Adamson Muses Thr. 25.
These haughs of fair and fertile ground 1660 Melrose Reg. Rec. I. 232.
He hes payit nothing for the hawgh 1688 Hawick Arch. Soc. Trans. (1868) 36/1.
The common haugh betwixt the said water and the said pathattrib. 1671 Forbes Baron Ct. 285.
The actis mad anent … the medow gras and hauch gras 1637 Macleod P. (Reg. H.).
His thrie dailes of haucheland lyand at the hauche barnes 1674 Elgin Rec. I. 318.
That no inhabitantis tak anie clay out of … the haucheland of Elgin