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Webster 1913 Edition

Taw

Taw

,
Noun.
Tow.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Taw

,
Verb.
T.
[Cf.
Tew
to tow,
Tow
,
Verb.
T.
]
To push; to tug; to tow.
[Obs.]
Drayton.

Taw

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tawed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Tawing
.]
[OE.
tawen
,
tewen
, AS.
tāwian
to prepare; cf. D.
touwen
, Goth.
tēwa
order,
taujan
to do, and E.
tool
. √64. Cf. 1st
Tew
,
Tow
the coarse part of flax.]
1.
To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.
2.
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.

Taw

,
Noun.
[Cf. AS.
tāw
instrument.]
1.
A large marble to be played with; also, a game at marbles.
2.
A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
[Colloq. U. S.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Taw

TAW

,
Verb.
T.
To dress white leather or alum leather; to dress and prepare skins in white, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats and kids, for gloves and the like.

TAW

,
Noun.
A marble to be played with.

Definition 2024

taw

taw

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English

Verb

taw ‎(third-person singular simple present taws, present participle tawing, simple past and past participle tawed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge.
  2. (transitive) 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.
  3. (transitive) Specifically, to turn (animals’ hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.
Related terms

Noun

taw ‎(plural taws)

  1. (obsolete) Tawed leather.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

taw ‎(plural taws)

  1. A favorite marble in the game of marbles.
  2. A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
  3. ring-taw
  4. (square dancing) dance partner
    Walk around your corner, see-saw around your taw.
  5. A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.

Verb

taw ‎(third-person singular simple present taws, present participle tawing, simple past and past participle tawed)

  1. to shoot a marble

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

Noun

taw ‎(plural taws)

  1. The twenty-second and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Translations

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Etymology 4

Compare tew ‎(“to tow”), and tow.

Verb

taw ‎(third-person singular simple present taws, present participle tawing, simple past and past participle tawed)

  1. To push; to tug; to tow.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)

References

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

Welsh

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *tāti (compare Old Irish at·tá), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- ‎(“to stand”).

Conjunction

taw

  1. (South Wales) that (introduces a noun clause, marking it for emphasis)
    • 1990, Y Faner, p. 8 (quoted in D.A. Thorne, A Comprehensive Welsh Grammar, Blackwell 1993, p. 377):
      Gadewch imi ddatgan taw gwaith caled fydd y cyfan.
      Let me declare that hard work it will all be.
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Verb

taw

  1. second-person singular imperative of tewi

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
taw daw nhaw thaw
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology

From Middle English tawen, from Old English tawian ‎(“to do, make”), from Proto-Germanic *tawjaną ‎(“to make, prepare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- ‎(“to tie to, secure”).

Cognate with Dutch touwen ‎(“to rope, tether, curry”), Dutch tuien ‎(“to fasten with ropes”), German Tau ‎(“rope, hawser, cable”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 ‎(taujan, “to make, prepare”). Related to tool and tether.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /tɔː/
  • Homophone: tau (Greek letter)

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