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n. A leather strap or thong which is split into (typically about three) tails, used for corporal punishment in schools.

n. a leather strap for punishing children

"Also known as a “split paddle,” a tawse is a wide leather strap split into strips at the end light to intense."

tawsed    tawses    tawsing   

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