taw

present singular third person taws · participle present tawing · participle past tawed · past tawed

1. obsoletetransitiveTo prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew.
2. broadlytransitiveTo beat; to scourge.
3. transitiveTo dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
   1. transitiveTo turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.

1. obsoleteTawed leather.

plural taws

1. A favorite marble in the game of marbles.

   Near the timberyard a squatted child at marbles, alone, shooting the taw with a cunnythumb.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

2. A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
3. square dancingA dance partner.

   Walk around your corner; see-saw around your taw.

4. A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.

present singular third person taws · participle present tawing · participle past tawed · past tawed

1. To shoot a marble.

plural taws · alternative tav · alternative taf · alternative tau

1. The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic.

present singular third person taws · participle present tawing · participle past tawed · past tawed · alternative obsolete tawe

1. To push; to tug; to tow.

   Swans vpon the Streame to tawe me

   1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses' Elizium

1. A river in Devon, England, which flows into an estuary where it meets the River Torridge.

1. rail transportThe station code of Tai Wai in Hong Kong.