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tawsing

tawsing is the present participle and gerund of tawse.

Meaning of tawse

Verb

tawse (third-person singular simple present tawses, present participle tawsing, simple past and past participle tawsed)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To beat with a tawse.

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Questions about tawsing

What is tawsing the present participle and gerund of?
Tawsing is the present participle and gerund of tawse.

Words near tawsing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tawsing (page history and authors); tawse (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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