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
Clearly his Dominie had not abused the taws.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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
He went back to "taws," and "lagged for goes," with the others.
From The Court of Boyville by Orson Lowell
From that moment he ruled them by his eye, the taws vanished.
From Spare Hours by John Brown
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