taws
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Marbles are divided into "taws," or well-made strong marbles with which you shoot, and "clays," or the ordinary cheap colored marbles at which you aim and with which you pay your losses.
From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Also there were three glass alleys, two agate taws and thirty-eight commies.
From The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson
Clearly his Dominie had not abused the taws.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
Nor is it to be obviated, we fear, by any expression of extra solemnity thrown into the pedagogical face, or even by the taking of places or the taws.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson
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 Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer by Sir Richard Steele
