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tawse
tawse or taws T0062875 (tôz)pl.n. Chiefly Scots 1. A whip or leather thong used to drive a spinning top.2. A leather whip divided at the end into strips, formerly used to punish children: "Solider Aristotle played the taws / Upon the bottom of a king of kings" (William Butler Yeats).
[From taw.]tawse (tɔːz) or tawsn (Education) a leather strap having one end cut into thongs, formerly used as an instrument of punishment by a schoolteachervb (Education) to punish (someone) with or as if with a tawse; whip[C16: probably plural of obsolete taw strip of leather; see taw2]tawse
Past participle: tawsed
Gerund: tawsing
| Present |
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| I tawse | | you tawse | | he/she/it tawses | | we tawse | | you tawse | | they tawse |
| Preterite |
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| I tawsed | | you tawsed | | he/she/it tawsed | | we tawsed | | you tawsed | | they tawsed |
| Present Continuous |
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| I am tawsing | | you are tawsing | | he/she/it is tawsing | | we are tawsing | | you are tawsing | | they are tawsing |
| Present Perfect |
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| I have tawsed | | you have tawsed | | he/she/it has tawsed | | we have tawsed | | you have tawsed | | they have tawsed |
| Past Continuous |
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| I was tawsing | | you were tawsing | | he/she/it was tawsing | | we were tawsing | | you were tawsing | | they were tawsing |
| Past Perfect |
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| I had tawsed | | you had tawsed | | he/she/it had tawsed | | we had tawsed | | you had tawsed | | they had tawsed |
| Future |
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| I will tawse | | you will tawse | | he/she/it will tawse | | we will tawse | | you will tawse | | they will tawse |
| Future Perfect |
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| I will have tawsed | | you will have tawsed | | he/she/it will have tawsed | | we will have tawsed | | you will have tawsed | | they will have tawsed |
| Future Continuous |
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| I will be tawsing | | you will be tawsing | | he/she/it will be tawsing | | we will be tawsing | | you will be tawsing | | they will be tawsing |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
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| I have been tawsing | | you have been tawsing | | he/she/it has been tawsing | | we have been tawsing | | you have been tawsing | | they have been tawsing |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
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| I will have been tawsing | | you will have been tawsing | | he/she/it will have been tawsing | | we will have been tawsing | | you will have been tawsing | | they will have been tawsing |
| Past Perfect Continuous |
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| I had been tawsing | | you had been tawsing | | he/she/it had been tawsing | | we had been tawsing | | you had been tawsing | | they had been tawsing |
| Conditional |
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| I would tawse | | you would tawse | | he/she/it would tawse | | we would tawse | | you would tawse | | they would tawse |
| Past Conditional |
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| I would have tawsed | | you would have tawsed | | he/she/it would have tawsed | | we would have tawsed | | you would have tawsed | | they would have tawsed |
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | tawse - a leather strap for punishing childrenstrap - whip consisting of a strip of leather used in floggingScotland - one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts |
tawse
tawse, taws Chiefly Scot a leather strap having one end cut into thongs, formerly used as an instrument of punishment by a schoolteacher tawse
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