Definition of "haugh"

haugh

/hɔː/

noun
plural haughs
1. (Scotland, Northern England, Ireland) A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
  Quotations
  The sheriff of the county of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, called the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, on a haugh, or level plain, near to a royal borough, […]
  1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume I (The Black Dwarf), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], pages 35–36
  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