tewed

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of tew

comparative more tewed · superlative most tewed

1. dialectalobsoletefatigued; worn from labour or hardship

   These lockes that hang unkempt, these hollowe dazled eyes, These chattering teeth, this trebling tongue, well tewed with carefull cries.

   1573, George Gascoigne, John William Cunliffe, “The Anatomye of a Lover”, in The Complete Works of George Gascoigne, published 1907, page 37

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   He would take no medicine, have no doctor, change no habits—"what did they want to mak on him? he wad du weel eneugh! nowt ailed him to speak on— he was nobbut a lile bit tewed wi ' t' summer's wark, an' off his feed, like auld Horney in t'byre younder;"

   1866, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg, page 114

   Sair tewed wi’ wark, I laid me down, And sloomed aneth the Roden Tree; I had a dream I’ll ne’er forget Till Mercy’s right hand reaches me.

   1868, William Shelley, “Aneth the Roden Tree”, in Flowers by the Wayside