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taws
[ tawz, tahz ]
noun
Chiefly Scot.
plural taws.
- a whip or leather thong used to drive a spinning top.
- a leather whip having its tip divided into smaller strips, used to punish schoolchildren.
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Clearly his Dominie had not abused the taws.
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They will use the taws on baby hands, that cannot make a ‘k’ or a ‘z’ at first sight.
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Marbles are divided into "taws," or well-made strong marbles with which you shoot, and "clays," or the ordinary cheap colored marbles at which you aim and with which you pay your losses.
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In the marble season he was a plutocrat in taws and agates.
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Nor is it to be obviated, we fear, by any expression of extra solemnity thrown into the pedagogical face, or even by the taking of places or the taws.
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