Obs. [f. HAW, OE. haʓa enclosure.] A churchyard.

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c. 1320.  Seuyn Sag., 2625 (W.). Of the fir in the chirche-hawe.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Pers. T., ¶ 727. By reson of the hooly place, as chirches or chirche hawes.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), V. 65. [Calixtus] made a chirche hawe [cimiterium] at Rome.

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1428.  E. E. Wills (1882), 80. The chirchau of houre La[dy] of Harryngey.

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1502.  Arnolde, Chron., 175. Al they … whiche violently drawen out of chirche, cloyster, or cherchehawe, any fugitif thider fled.

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