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tawses

tawses is the plural of tawse.

Meaning of tawse

Noun

tawse (plural tawses)

  1. (Scotland) A leather strap or thong which is split into (typically three) tails, used for corporal punishment in schools, applied to the palm of the hands or buttocks.
    • I lay about me with the taws
      That night and morning I may thrash
      Greek Alexander from my flesh, […]1919 March, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, “The Saint and the Hunchback”, in The Wild Swans at Coole, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, pages 104–105

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Questions about tawses

What is tawses the plural of?
Tawses is the plural of tawse.

Words near tawses in the dictionary

  1. tawriyahs
  2. tawriyas
  3. taws
  4. tawse
  5. tawsed
  6. tawses
  7. tawsing
  8. Tawstock
  9. tawyer
  10. tawyers
  11. Tawákwaptiwa

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