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noun

Taw n. Tow. (Obs.)

Taw n.

A large marble to be played with; also, a game at marbles.

A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles. (Colloq. U. S.)

verb

Taw v. t. To push; to tug; to tow. (Obs.)

Taw v. t. (past & past part. tawed; pres. part. tawing)

To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge. (Obs.)

To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.

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"Taw" Quotes from Famous Books

... kill her if she departed from him; so his mood softened, and telling her to come on, he began the homeward journey. They passed through a small American town in the middle of the night—he having previously taken off the Indian rawhide shoes from the ponies. They crossed the Gila near the Nau Taw Mountains. Here he stole two fresh horses, and loading one with all the buckskins, he put her on and headed her down the Eagle Trail to Black River. She now knew where she was, but was nearly dying from the exhaustion of his fly-by-night expeditions. He halted her, told her to 'tell the white ...

— Crooked Trails • Frederic Remington

... were plenty of Rebels in the country, and they hung around our front, exchanging shots with us at long taw, and occasionally treating us to a volley at close range, from some favorable point. But we had the decided advantage of them at this game. Our Sharpe's carbines were much superior in every way to their Enfields. They would shoot much farther, and a ...

— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy

... just daylight as we entered the broad estuary where the rivers Taw and Torridge flow into the ocean. We came off Appledore, at the mouth of the Torridge, on which Bideford is situated. Bideford has an ancient school-house, where many a naval hero acquired such education as was considered necessary to prepare him for a life on the ocean. Another interesting ...

— A Yacht Voyage Round England • W.H.G. Kingston

... here and there a crag of fern-fringed slate; below they lower, and open more and more in softly rounded knolls, and fertile squares of red and green, till they sink into the wide expanse of hazy flats, rich salt-marshes, and rolling sand-hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw, and both together flow quietly toward the broad surges of the bar, and the everlasting thunder of the long Atlantic swell. Pleasantly the old town stands there, beneath its soft Italian sky, fanned day and night by the fresh ...

— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley

... fool," said I between my teeth, "do you think you can play alley-taw and cat's-cradle ...

— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers

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