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Taw v. t. (past & past part. tawed; pres. part. tawing)

To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge. (Obs.)

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Taw" Quotes from Famous Books

... usually spelt "Taw." "Commoneys" were the inferior or commoner kind. "Knuckle down," according to our recollections, was the laying the knuckle on the ground for a shot. "Odd and even" was also spoken of by the Serjeant. ...

— Pickwickian Manners and Customs • Percy Fitzgerald

... follered Hangelinar in imadganation along the North Road. I wented cusses & mallydickshuns on the hinfamus Silvertop. I kickd and rord in my unhuttarable whoe! I seazed my pillar: I pitcht into it: pummld it, strangled it. Ha har! I thought it was Silvertop writhing in my Jint grasp; and taw the hordayshis villing lim from lim in the terrible strenth of my despare! . . . Let me drop a cutting over the memries of that night. When my boddy-suvnt came with my ot water in the mawning, the livid copse in the charnill was not payler ...

— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray

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