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English Dictionary: Taws by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Taws \Taws\, n. [See {Taw} to beat.]
      A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a
      schoolmaster. [Written also {tawes}, {tawis}, and {tawse}.]
      [Scot.]
  
               Never use the taws when a gloom can do the turn.
                                                                              --Ramsay.
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