Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Shaw

Shaw (sha) , noun

[Old English schawe, schaye, thicket, grove, Anglo-Saxon scaga; akin to Danish skov, Swedish skog, Icelandic skōgr.]

1.
A thicket; a small wood or grove. [Obsolete or Provincial English & Scottish] — Burns
Gaillard he was as goldfinch in the shaw. — Chaucer
The green shaws, the merry green woods. — Howitt
2.
The leaves and tops of vegetables, as of potatoes, turnips, etc. [Scottish] — Jamieson