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Webster 1913 Edition
Taws
Taws
,Noun.
[See
Taw
to beat.] A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster.
[Written also
tawes
, tawis
, and tawse
.] [Scot.]
Never use the
taws
when a gloom can do the turn. Ramsay.