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Synonyms for taws

Grammar : Noun
Spell : tawz, tahz
Phonetic Transcription : tɔz, tɑz

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Définition of taws

Origin :
  • "to prepare" (leather), from Old English tawian "to do, make," from Proto-Germanic *tawojan (cf. Old Frisian tawa, Old Saxon toian, Middle Dutch tauwen, Dutch touwen, Old High German zouwen "to prepare," Old High German zawen "to succeed," Gothic taujan "to make, prepare"), probably related to the root of Old English tol "tool" (see tool).
  • As in leather : noun hide
Example sentences :
  • From that moment he ruled them by his eye, the taws vanished.
  • Extract from : « Spare Hours » by John Brown
  • He went back to "taws," and "lagged for goes," with the others.
  • Extract from : « The Court of Boyville » by William Allen White
  • They will use the taws on baby hands, that cannot make a ‘k’ or a ‘z’ at first sight.
  • Extract from : « Christine » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  • If his mother had laid on the taws better, he would nae hae been sae skeigh.
  • Extract from : « The Entail » by John Galt
  • One whipped daily and hourly with a hickory club with leather thongs attached at one end; this he called the "taws."
  • Extract from : « Child Life in Colonial Days » by Alice Morse Earle
  • "You deserve the taws about your back, sirrah, to forget my sacred office so far as to speak so," said the minister.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
  • The game is concluded when all the marbles are shot out of the ring, or all the taws are killed.
  • Extract from : « Every Boy's Book: A Complete Encyclopdia of Sports and Amusements » by Various
  • Alleys are the most valuable and are always reserved to be used as “taws” (the marble actually used by the player).
  • Extract from : « The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol I of II) » by Alice Bertha Gomme
  • And you may helpe them much by enlarging their rootes with the taws of the tree, whence you take them.
  • Extract from : « A New Orchard And Garden » by William Lawson

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