An archaic or dialect form meaning a hill or a haugh; sometimes used to mean a landing place or promontory.
Related to 'haugh' but with uncertain etymology—possibly from Old Norse or a variant form. Usage is primarily dialectal and historical.
Haught is so rare today that most English speakers have never heard it, yet it survives in place names and old deeds—a ghost word haunting the margins of modern vocabulary.
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