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Definition of Tawse

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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.

Meaning of Tawse from wikipedia

- The tawse, sometimes formerly spelled taws (the plural of Scots taw, a thong of a whip), is an implement used for corporal punishment. It was used for...
- used interchangeably include whipping, lashing, and belting. The Scottish tawse is a forked version with two or more tails, colloquially known as the belt...
- Ethel Maud Tawse Jollie OBE (8 March 1874 – 21 September 1950; née Cookson; widowed Colquhoun) was a writer and political activist in Southern Rhodesia...
- had pleasure in it was a dream, long, long gone by." Flagellation Scourge Tawse Martin, Randall (March 2006). "'The cat' Gets its Nine tails". Notes and...
- Sybil Tawse (26 September 1886 – 6 February 1971), English artist and illustrator. Sybil Tawse was born on 26 September, 1886, the fifth child of George...
- Brian Tawse (born 30 July 1945) is a Scottish former professional footballer who made over 100 appearances in the Football League for Brighton & Hove...
- beating in general, regardless of the implement (e.g. in Scotland, the tawse, a forked type of strap, was frequently called the belt) or even absence...
- intense pain had worn off. Elsewhere, other implements prevailed, such as the tawse in Scotland and Northern England, ruler, and the slipper. Girls were caned...
- A scene from Cranford, illustrated by Sybil Tawse....
- objected to working on the Sabbath, before returning to Tawse as a junior partner, creating Tawse & Bonar WS. In 1821 he joined the Homiletical Society...