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tawing

tawing is the present participle and gerund of taw.

Meaning of taw

Verb (1)

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

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew.
  2. (broadly, transitive) 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.

Verb (2)

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

  1. To shoot a marble.

Verb (3)

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

  1. To push; to tug; to tow.
    • Swans vpon the Streame to tawe me1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses' Elizium

See all 14 meanings of taw

Noun

tawing (usually uncountable, plural tawings)

  1. (usually) The process by which animal skins are tawed.

Forms of tawing

pluraltawings

Questions about tawing

What does tawing mean?
Tawing means the process by which animal skins are tawed.
What is tawing the present participle and gerund of?
Tawing is the present participle and gerund of taw.
What part of speech is tawing?
Tawing is a noun.
What is the plural of tawing?
The plural of tawing is tawings.

Words near tawing in the dictionary

  1. tawhiwhi
  2. Tawi-Tawi
  3. tawie
  4. Tawil
  5. Tawils
  6. tawing
  7. tawings
  8. Tawintawin
  9. Tawiran
  10. tawiz
  11. tawizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tawing (page history and authors); taw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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