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单词 taws
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tawstawsen.

Brit. /tɔːz/, U.S. /tɔz/, /tɑz/, Scottish English /tɔz/
Forms: 1500s tawis, tawes, 1700s tawz, taz, 1700s– tawse, 1800s– taws.
Etymology: apparently plural of taw n.2 2 (but evidenced much earlier); sometimes treated as a singular.
Chiefly Scottish.
1. A whip for driving a spinning top; esp. one made of a thong: see quot. 1892. (In quot. 1513 probably plural as in 2.)
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] > whipping-top > whip
taws1513
scourge-stick1522
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. vii. 91 As..the round top of tre [wooden top] Hit with the twynit quhyp, dois quherle, we see..smyttin wyth the tawis dois rebound, And rynnis about, about, in cirkill round.
1892 Ballymena (Antrim) Observer (E.D.D.) Tawse, a few strips of leather tied to a shaft, used by boys in spinning tops.
2. spec. An instrument of family or school discipline, used in Scottish and many English schools, consisting of a leathern strap or thong, divided at the end into narrow strips. Also transferred and figurative.In Scottish construed as plural, and in phrase a pair of taws.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > strap
tawsa1585
stirrup-leather1611
strapc1710
belt1767
a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 57 In thy teeth bring mee the tawes, With beckes my bidding to abide.
a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 571.
1719 A. Ramsay 2nd Answer to Hamilton vi I've kiss'd the tawz, like a good bairn.
1721 A. Ramsay Lucky Spence ix Vild hangy's taz ye'r riggings fast Makes black and blae.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd v. iii. Prol. The tawz Was handled by revengefu' Madge.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Taws, a pair of taws, a leather strap used by schoolmasters for chastising children.
1825 T. Carlyle Early Lett. (1886) II. 329 A pedagogue called Fate; he is an excellent teacher, but his fees are very high, and his tawse are rather heavy.
1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xi. 186 I took out the tawse and laid them on the closed Bible, as a terror to evil-doers.
1865 R. Chambers Ess. 2nd Ser. 79 He carried a pair of short but impressive taws.
1892 Schoolmaster 31 Dec. 1165/2 Nottingham School Board. The Board authorises assistants to administer corporal punishment to the extent of a light stroke with a cane or tawse.
1910 N.E.D. at Taws Mod. Sc. Behave yoursel', or you'll get the taws.
in combination.1865 G. MacDonald Alec Forbes I. xiii. 102 The smile which, in spite of pain, had illuminated his tawse-waled cheeks.1885 J. Lumsden Rural Rhymes 142 The ancient tawse-swasher pled weariness.

Derivatives

tawse v. (transitive) to chastise with the taws.
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society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)]
threac897
tighta1000
beswinkc1175
punisha1325
chastise1362
paina1375
justifya1393
wage1412
reformc1450
chasten1526
thwart over thumba1529
chastifyc1540
amerce?1577
follow1579
to rap (a person) on the knuckles (also fingers)1584
finea1616
mulcta1620
fita1625
vindicate1632
trounce1657
reward1714
tawse1790
sort1815
to let (a person) have it1823
visit1836
to catch or get Jesse1839
to give, get goss1840
to have ita1848
to take (a person) to the woodshed1882
to give (one) snuff1890
soak1892
give1906
to weigh off1925
to tear down1938
zap1961
slap1968
1790 A. Shirrefs Poems Gloss. Taz, to whip, scourge, belabour.
1883 Mem. A. Maclean 240 He was tawsed for his obstinacy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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