Example sentences from the Web for tawse

This is an iron chain with a heavy knob at the end, to which a strap, like a Scotch tawse, is often attached.
The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. I (of 2)|W. Crooke
The chain is ordinarily three and a half feet long, the tawse two feet, and the total weight is about seven pounds.
The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. I (of 2)|W. Crooke
The serpent had unwound its coils; it lay revealed in all its hideousness—a teacher's tawse!
Bud|Neil Munro
The tawse had hung idle even for Paul for many and many a day.
Despair's Last Journey|David Christie Murray

I dinna think that e'er I had to raise the tawse to Sandy in my life.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland|John Mackay Wilson

tawse

taws

mainly Scot

noun

a leather strap having one end cut into thongs, formerly used as an instrument of punishment by a schoolteacher

verb

to punish (someone) with or as if with a tawse; whip

Word Origin for tawse

C16: probably plural of obsolete taw strip of leather; see taw ²

Words nearby tawse

tawny, tawny owl, tawny pipit, tawpie, taws, tawse, tax, taxable, taxaceous, taxation, taxation without representation

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单词	tawse
释义	Example sentences from the Web for tawse This is an iron chain with a heavy knob at the end, to which a strap, like a Scotch tawse, is often attached. The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. I (of 2)\|W. Crooke The chain is ordinarily three and a half feet long, the tawse two feet, and the total weight is about seven pounds. The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. I (of 2)\|W. Crooke The serpent had unwound its coils; it lay revealed in all its hideousness—a teacher's tawse! Bud\|Neil Munro The tawse had hung idle even for Paul for many and many a day. Despair's Last Journey\|David Christie Murray I dinna think that e'er I had to raise the tawse to Sandy in my life. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland\|John Mackay Wilson tawse taws mainly Scot noun a leather strap having one end cut into thongs, formerly used as an instrument of punishment by a schoolteacher verb to punish (someone) with or as if with a tawse; whip Word Origin for tawse C16: probably plural of obsolete taw strip of leather; see taw ² Words nearby tawse tawny, tawny owl, tawny pipit, tawpie, taws, tawse, tax, taxable, taxaceous, taxation, taxation without representation Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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