Taws

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • noun-plural. Chiefly Scots A whip or leather thong used to drive a spinning top.
  • noun-plural. Chiefly Scots A leather whip divided at the end into strips, formerly used to punish children: "Solider Aristotle played the taws/Upon the bottom of a king of kings” ( William Butler Yeats).
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  • n. Alternative spelling of tawse.
  • n. Plural form of taw.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of taw.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A leather strap, usually with a slit or fringe-like end, used as an instrument of punishment by schoolmasters and others.
    • Word Usage
    "Their heads were not the heads of geese but of women artificially painted and with so-called taws, or marbles, for their eyes."
    Variant
    tawes    tawis    tawse   
    Verb Stem
    taw   
     
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