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Definition of Taws

Taws
Taws Taws, n. [See Taw to beat.] A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster. [Written also tawes, tawis, and tawse.] [Scot.] Never use the taws when a gloom can do the turn. --Ramsay.
Taw
Taw Taw, n. Tow. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Taw
Taw Taw, v. t. [Cf. Tew to tow, Tow, v. t.] To push; to tug; to tow. [Obs.] --Drayton.
Taw
Taw Taw, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tawed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tawing.] [OE. tawen, tewen, AS. t[=a]wian to prepare; cf. D. touwen, Goth. t[=e]wa order, taujan to do, and E. tool. [root]64. Cf. 1st Tew, Tow the coarse part of flax.] 1. To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. 2. To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
Taw
Taw Taw, n. [Cf. AS. t[=a]w instrument.] 1. A large marble to be played with; also, a game at marbles. 2. A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles. [Colloq. U. S.]

Meaning of Taws from wikipedia

- adequately respond to a TAWS warning in 47% of cases. Several factors can still place aircraft at risk for CFIT accidents: older TAWS systems, deactivation...
- Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic tāʾ ت‎, Aramaic taw 𐡕‎, Hebrew tav ת‎, Phoenician tāw 𐤕...
- Look up Taw or taw in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Taw or TAW may refer to: Taw (letter), the twenty-second letter in many Semitic alphabets Taw (number)...
- Ashley Taws (born November 1, 1983) is a Canadian racing driver. Taws started racing at the age of nine when her father bought go-karts for her and her...
- system (TAWS). More advanced systems, introduced in 1996, are known as enhanced ground proximity warning systems (EGPWS), a modern type of TAWS. In the...
- Kyun Taw A Mone Sone Kyun Taw (Burmese: ကျွန်တော်အမုန်းဆုံးကျွန်တော်) is a 2020 Burmese drama television series. It is based on the po****r novel "Kyun...
- The River Taw (/tɔː/) in England rises at Taw Head, a spring on the central northern flanks of Dartmoor, crosses North Devon and at the town of Barnstaple...
- Prince Edward Taw Phaya (Burmese: တော်ဘုရား; also known as Tun Aung, 22 March 1924 – 12 January 2019) was the Pretender to the Throne of Burma (abolished...
- The Taw yağı (pronounced [tʌʊ jʌˈɣɯ] in Tatar) or Viryal (Tatar: Тау ягы, romanized: Taw yağı; Chuvash: Вирьял; Russian: Го́рная сторона́, literally Hill...
- In the North of England the objects and the game are called "taws", with larger taws being called "bottle washers" after the use of a marble in Codd-neck...