taw

IPA: tˈɔ

(obsolete) Tawed leather.
A favorite marble in the game of marbles.
A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
(square dancing) A dance partner.
A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.
The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic.
A river in Devon, England, which flows into an estuary where it meets the River Torridge.
(rail transport) The station code of Tai Wai in Hong Kong.

(transitive, obsolete) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew.
(transitive, by extension) To beat; to scourge.
(transitive) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
(transitive) To turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.
To shoot a marble.
To push; to tug; to tow.

Examples of "taw" in Sentences

The "taw" is a straight line some six or eight feet away.
In season with the right conditions I certainly would shoot a 'yote and taw his fur too.
At that time, the renovation team on scaffolding tried to adjust the collapsed hti-taw again.
A starting or "taw" line is drawn on the ground and the back stands with his side parallel to it.
An old woman who lives in Danoke Village near the pagoda said, What happened was around 2pm, the hti-taw (ornamental finial of the pagoda) collapsed first, yet there was no strong wind blowing.
There was no difficulty about balls, for we decided at once that the most suitable article for us, in the absence of real gutties, was the big white marble which we called a taw, and which was about half the size of an ordinary golf ball, or perhaps a little less than that.
Where it usually does, with the Big D's and the Big R's and now the Big T's ( "Teabloids", since they seem to be a tabloid form of politics) involved in a scream fest that has reduced the current level of political discourse to something akin to an argument between Sylvester and Tweety Bird on who taw, or did not tee a Putty Tat.