haw
IPA: hˈɔ
noun
- Fruit of the hawthorn.
- (historical) A hedge.
- (obsolete) Something that has little value or importance; a whit or jot.
- (countable, anatomy) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane.
- (uncountable) A disease of the nictitating membrane.
- A topographic and patronymic surname transferred from the given name.
- A river in the US state of North Carolina.
verb
- To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
- (of an animal) To turn towards the driver, typically to the left.
- To cause (an animal) to turn left.
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Examples of "haw" in Sentences
- This monument used the spelling Haw.
- Today the Haw ars are all but forgotten.
- Otherwise the derived sentence would not haw.
- But we do not need to hem and haw about this.
- I need to learn haw to make infoboxes and templates.
- I would like to know haw to do that with the jigsaw.
- I have posted a similar message on the Lord Haw Haw talk page.
- The title of the collection refers to the haw fruit, a type of berry.
- A gee haw whammy diddle is mechanical toy consisting of two wooden sticks.
- Due to overcrowding of the bar in Lexington, Hawes moved to Winchester in 1824.
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