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Definition: tawis
Taws
\Taws\, n. [See
Taw to beat.]
A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a
schoolmaster. [Written also
tawes,
tawis, and
tawse.]
[Scot.]
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Never use the taws when a gloom can do the turn.
--Ramsay.
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