Definition/Meaning of taw

• English - Verb: taw (third-person singular simple present taws, present participle tawing, simple past and past participle tawed) (obsolete, transitive) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew. (broadly, transitive) To beat; to scourge. (transitive) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and…
• English - Noun: taw (obsolete) Tawed leather . taw (plural taws) A favorite marble in the game of marbles . 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC: Near the timberyard a squatted child at marbles, alone, shooting the taw with a cunnythumb. A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles. A dance partner . Walk around your corner; see-saw…
• English - References: Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary , Springfield , Massachusetts , G .&C. Merriam Co ., 1967
• English - Anagrams: ATW TWA wat , Wat WTA
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English tawen , from Old English tawian (“to do, make”), from Proto-West Germanic *tawōn, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *tauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *tawjaną (“to make, prepare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”). Cognate with Dutch touwen (“to rope, tether , curry”), Dutch tuien (“to fasten with ropes”), German Tau (“rope, hawser, cable”),…