Taw Definition

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taws
verb
taws
To prepare (a natural product) for further treatment or use; specif., to make (skins) into leather by treating with alum, salt, etc.
Webster's New World

To shoot a marble.

Wiktionary

Specifically, to turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.

Wiktionary
To push; to tug; to tow.
Wiktionary
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Wiktionary
noun
A large, fancy marble used for shooting.
American Heritage
In a game of marbles,
Webster's New World
A game of marbles in which players attempt to drive marbles out of a marked circle.
Webster's New World

Tav.

Webster's New World

(obsolete) Tawed leather.

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Other Word Forms of Taw

Noun

Singular:
taw
Plural:
taws

Origin of Taw

  • From Middle English tawen, from Old English tawian (“to do, make"), from Proto-Germanic *tawjanÄ… (“to make, prepare"), from Proto-Indo-European *dewǝ- (“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.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English tawen from Old English tawian to prepare

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Compare tew (“to tow"), and tow.

    From Wiktionary

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Origin unknown.

    From Wiktionary

Taw Sentence Examples

  • Mulk property is governed chiefly by the Sheri (sacred Taw).

  • The older part of the town, being the whole of the municipal borough previous to 1836, occupies the west bank of the Taw& near its mouth and is now wholly given up to business.

  • Though his relation to collection is still in theory the chief monument of the general ecclesiastical law, it only marked a certain stage and taw.

  • Soak up the beautiful English countryside on the way as the train stradlles the river taw all the way up to North Devon.

  • Soak up the beautiful English countryside on the way as the train stradlles the river Taw all the way up to North Devon.

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