taws
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He is the most stupid of all my mother's children: he knows nothing of his book: when he should mind that, he is hiding or hoarding his taws and marbles, or laying up farthings.
From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by George A. Aitken
Ne'er use the taws when a gloom will do.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
Clearly his Dominie had not abused the taws.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
Also there were three glass alleys, two agate taws and thirty-eight commies.
From The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson
And you may helpe them much by enlarging their rootes with the taws of the tree, whence you take them.
From A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England by William Lawson
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