taw

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɔː/
• Homophone: tau

From Middle English tawen, from Old English tawian (“to do, make”), 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”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 (taujan, “to make, prepare”). Related to tool and tether.

taw (third-person singular simple present taws, present participle tawing, simple past and past participle tawed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew.
2. (transitive, by extension) To beat; to scourge.
3. (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 bleaching them.
   1. (transitive) To turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.

• tool

taw

1. (obsolete) Tawed leather.

• tawse

Unknown.

taw (plural taws)

1. A favorite marble in the game of marbles.
2. A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
3. (square dancing) A dance partner.

   Walk around your corner; see-saw around your taw.

4. A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.

taw (third-person singular simple present taws, present participle tawing, simple past and past participle tawed)

1. To shoot a marble.

• tav
• taf

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaʊ/

taw (plural taws)

1. The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic.

• taw on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Compare tew (“to tow”), and tow.

taw (third-person singular simple present taws, present participle tawing, simple past and past participle tawed)

1. To push; to tug; to tow.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

• ATW, AWT, TWA, WAT, WTA, Wat, wat

taw

1. mountain

From Proto-Celtic *tāti (compare Old Irish at·tá), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).

taw

1. (South Wales) that (introduces a noun clause, marking it for emphasis)
   • 1990, Y Faner, p. 8 (quoted in D.A. Thorne, A Comprehensive Welsh Grammar, Blackwell 1993, p. 377):

     Gadewch imi ddatgan taw gwaith caled fydd y cyfan.

     Let me declare that hard work it will all be.

• mai

From Proto-Celtic *tawsos (“silent”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂ws- (“still, silent”) (compare Sanskrit तूष्णीम् (tūṣṇīm, “silently”)).

taw m (uncountable)

1. silence

• distaw (“quiet, silent”)

taw

1. second-person singular imperative of tewi