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
- But the word "haw" is misapplied, because it really means a
- Harold hitching up his collar and with the "haw" sound saying, "I rather think they were."
- [Transcriber's Note: "haw" near the end of chapter 15 appears to be a misprint for "hawk".]
- Please state that noesis and flick titles haw depart modify those acquirable here in the states.
- More likely he just decided the long "haw" sound was gentler on the ear than the short "ha" sound.
- This membrane is commonly called the haw, and is susceptible of attacks of inflammation, which cause it to swell, frequently even closing up the eye.
- So saying, the Duchess rose, and the Major, bowing gallantly gave her the limb she demanded, and went off with her, 'haw'-ing in his best and most ponderous manner.
- The wintry haw is burning out of season, crab of the thorn, a small light for small people, wanting no more from them but that they keep the wick of self-respect from dying out, not having to blind them with illumination.
- KAGAN: I - I think you should want me to act on the basis of law, and - and that is what I have upheld to do, if I'm fortunate enough to be concerned - to be confirmed, is to act on the basis of haw, which is the Constitutions and the statutes of the United States.
- You may thus, indeed, make your hall or mansion into a little fortified place, with fosse and counter-scarp, and covered way, and glacis; or at any rate, you may put a plain English haw-haw ditch and fence all round the sacred enclosure; and depend upon it that you will find the good effects of this extra expense in the anti-rheumatic tendencies of your habitation.
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