taw

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A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse
Specifically, to turn (animals’ hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution
Tawed leather
To prepare
A favorite marble in the game of marbles
ring-taw
The twenty-second and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others)
dance partner

Walk around your corner, see-saw around your taw.

to shoot a marble
{n} a boy's marble
{v} to dress white lether
A large marble to be played with; also, a game at marbles
the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles
A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles
a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Tow
To push; to tug; to tow
Variant of tav
{i} large shooting marble used in many children's games
To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them
To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge
To turn animals' hide into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution
The 22nd and last letter of the Hebrew, Syriac and Phoenician alphabets
Nay Pyi Taw
An alternative spelling for Naypyidaw, the new (since 2005) administrative capital of Myanmar (formerly Burma)
tawer
{n} a tanner or dresser of white lether
tawer
One who taws; a dresser of white leather
taw

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    Etymology

    [ 'to ] (transitive verb.) before 12th century. From Middle English tawen, from Old English tawian (“to do, make”), from Proto-Germanic *tawjanan (“to make, prepare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewǝ- (“to tie to, secure”). Cognate with Dutch touwen (“to rope, tether, curry”), Dutch tuien (“to fasten with ropes”), German Tau (“rope, hawser, cable”), Gothic (taujan, “to make, prepare”). Related to tool and tether.

    Tenses

    tawing, tawed
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