Obs. Forms and etym.: see WOOD sb.1 and SHAW sb.1; also with gen. 4 wodesschawe. A thicket: = SHAW sb.1 1 b.
c. 1205. Lay., 21561. Halden ut of wude scaȝe scalkes swiðe kene.
a. 1300. Thrush & Night., 179, in Hazl., E. P. P. (1864), I. 57. Fowel, for thi false sawe, For bedd i the this wode shawe; Thou fare into the filde.
1390. Gower, Conf., II. 339. Whan sche under the wodesschawe Hire child behield.
a. 1400. Isumbras, 73. And als he wente by a wodschawe [v.r. came by a lytell schawe] Þare mett he with a lyttill knaue.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 7618. Then men myȝt se swordes drawe Thikkere then trees by wode-schawe.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, IX. xii. 356. Sir lamorak … rode vnto the forest, and there he mette with two knyghtes houynge vnder the wood shawe.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, I. vi. 10. His navy derne amang the thik wod schaw.
