Meanings
verbtowze (third-person singular simple present towzes, present participle towzing, simple past and past participle towzed)
present singular third person towzes · participle present towzing · participle past towzed · past towzed
- alternativeAlternative spelling of touse.
His tongue troules like a Mill-clack: a towzes the Lady ſiſters, as a tumbling Dog does young Rabets; […]
c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act III, page 39
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